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UK
/stɹˈʌt/
]
[ US /ˈstɹət/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹət/ ]
VERB
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to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
He struts around like a rooster in a hen house
NOUN
- a proud stiff pompous gait
- brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression
How To Use strut In A Sentence
- Everyone stared at her as the young woman strutted into the room, fingering a spaghetti strap of her red minidress with plunging neckline.
- She was always strutting around like she was a goddess or something, on more then one occasion she swatted me on the bottom with her staff.
- They ridiculed leaked U.S. plans to install a proconsul in the Douglas MacArthur mold, strutting around with a cob pipe and dictating orders to a humiliated people.
- In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
- But Stevie is by no means the only disabled performer strutting his stuff at the festival this year.
- In the first half of his latest show, Lord of the Mince - which he describes a self-assured strutt called mincing of which he is the doyen - he reviews the ups and downs in his life. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
- Kleiber even goes so far as to move the last act's entr'acte right into the middle of the choruses which open that act, providing the flamenco dancers with another opportunity to strut their stuff.
- So when I turned on my seven-hundred-dollar heels to strut toward the bar, and over to where Mona was—perched up on a barstool with a frosty drink in her hand, like I wanted to be—I was slightly annoyed when some nigga grabbed me gently by the forearm, pulling me back to the floor. Deep Throat Diva
- Bonita e minimalista, mas senti-me tentado a tirar a estrutura de apoio! KOLO Armchair by Jouko Järvisalo
- I had a momentary image - very clear, very politically incorrect, and very likely brought on by Pam's mention of the cartoon books I'd once drawn for a little sick girl - of a large talking skunk in a beret, Monsieur Pepé Le Pew, strutting around my daughter's pension (if that was the word for a bedsitter-type apartment in Paris) with wavy aroma lines rising from his white-striped back. Duma Key