RUBBER BAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rubber band mean? 

• RUBBER BAND (noun)
  The noun RUBBER BAND has 1 sense:

1. a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together

  Familiarity information: RUBBER BAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUBBER BAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

elastic; elastic band; rubber band

Hypernyms ("rubber band" is a kind of...):

band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

elastic device (any flexible device that will return to its original shape when stretched)

 Context examples 

To make the yarns highly elastic, they introduced so much twist that the yarns coiled like an over-twisted rubber band.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There were twenty fifty-pound notes of the Bank of England, held together by an india-rubber band—nothing else.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)