strut

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  1. intransitive verb To walk with pompous bearing; swagger.
  2. transitive verb To display in order to impress others. Sometimes used with out: Don't strut out your resume until you have more accomplishments to list.
  3. transitive verb To provide (a structure) with a strut or struts.
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  • The strut was an aluminium-titanium alloy, with a specific hydrocarbon chain reinforcement; it was also two thousand four hundred years old. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
  • Went out onto the ice with a spear fashioned from hooked and sharpened transmitter strut, aerial cable for a line. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 02 - February 1995
  • “Ouch. That seat strut is a real pain.” She sat in the door of the plane to pull on her boots. —  Steven Gould - Wildside (v2.1)
  • There's a fine line between slut and strut, and this outfit could walk it. —  Blevins, Meredith - (Szabo 02) - The Vanished Priestess
  • The soundtrack to your strut is the catchy and hypnotic sound of the driving game —  FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
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strut:   strutted ·  strutting
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English strouten, to stand out, from Old English strūtian, to stand out stiffly; see ster-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English or dial. also strout, stroot; from Middle English strouten, strowten, struten, from Danish strutte, strut, = Swedish strutta, walk with a jolting step, = Middle High German G. strotzen. swell, strut; cf. Middle High German strūz, German Strauss, a fight, contention, Middle High German striuzen, contend, struggle. See strut, n., and cf. strunt.
  2. from Middle English strut, strout, strot: see strut, v.
  3. Contr. past participle of strut, v.
  4. Cf. Icelandic strūtr, a hood jutting out like a horn, = Norwegian strut, a spout, nozle, = Swedish strut, a paper cornet; cf. Low German strutt, stiff, rigid; from the root of strut: see strut, v.
  5. from strut, n.
 

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