WAISTBAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waistband mean? 

• WAISTBAND (noun)
  The noun WAISTBAND has 1 sense:

1. a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

  Familiarity information: WAISTBAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAISTBAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cincture; girdle; sash; waistband; waistcloth

Hypernyms ("waistband" 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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waistband"):

cummerbund (a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo)

 Context examples 

In this exercise I once met an accident, which had like to have cost me my life; for, one of the pages having put my boat into the trough, the governess who attended Glumdalclitch very officiously lifted me up, to place me in the boat: but I happened to slip through her fingers, and should infallibly have fallen down forty feet upon the floor, if, by the luckiest chance in the world, I had not been stopped by a corking-pin that stuck in the good gentlewoman’s stomacher; the head of the pin passing between my shirt and the waistband of my breeches, and thus I was held by the middle in the air, till Glumdalclitch ran to my relief.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)