Dictionary Entry
strut
strut is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To swell; to bulge out. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 10 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To swell; to bulge out.
- 2transitive verb
To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
- 3noun
The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
- 4noun
In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
- 5noun
Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.
- 6transitive verb
To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.
- 7adjective
Protuberant.
- 8noun
a proud stiff pompous gait
- 9noun
brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression
- 10verb
to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
"He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
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