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rubber band

noun

  1. a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.


rubber band

noun

  1. a continuous loop of thin rubber, used to hold papers, etc, together Also calledelastic band


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rubber band1

First recorded in 1890–95

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Example Sentences

"One dollar," he said and threw a plainer stone with a rubber band looped around it for our payment.

At that point, like a taut and twisted rubber band, I sprung into action and completed the book in about two months.

“I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger,” she said.

The first lady packs a rubber band and a jump rope in her suitcase on the road.

The triangle is “like a rubber band wound up in a toy propeller,” Turner says.

Around the outside of the case was a piece of paper, held in place by a rubber band.

Kip removed the rubber band, unrolled the paper, studied it in match light.

He pulled off an india-rubber band from the latest packet, and was soon deep in them, at first half ashamed, half contemptuous.

A very deceiving illusion can be contrived with a bit of wire, a rubber band and a toothpick.

The hairpin or wire is bent as shown in the illustration, and the rubber band then placed on the inverted U-shaped part.

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