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Rubber band   /rˈəbər bænd/   Listen
Rubber band

noun
1.
A narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together.  Synonyms: elastic, elastic band.






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"Rubber band" Quotes from Famous Books



... in an inner drawer reserved for private papers, lay a package of letters fastened together by a broad rubber band. "From the Little Vicar," it was labelled, and Mary's astonishment would have been great, could she have known that every letter she had ever written him was thus preserved. He had kept the first ones, written in a childish, painstaking hand, because they chronicled the doings of the family at ...
— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston

... that particular crevice in the hollow trunk too well to make any mistake now. A minute later and he had fished up a little cardboard box, not over four inches in length, and secured with a rubber band. ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... from Lilly, these months, as if a line of resiliency within her had snapped like a rubber band. It showed most in her slowed step and her head ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst



Words linked to "Rubber band" :   elastic device, band



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