Usually means: Elastic band holding up stockings.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word garter:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. garter: Merriam-Webster
  2. garter, the Garter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. garter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. garter, the Garter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. garter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Garter, garter: Wordnik
  7. garter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. garter: Wiktionary
  9. garter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. garter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. garter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Garter, garter: Dictionary.com
  13. garter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. garter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Garter (disambiguation), Garter (stockings), Garter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Garter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. garter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. garter: Rhymezone
  19. Garter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. garter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Garter: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. garter: FreeDictionary.org
  23. garter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. garter, the Garter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Garter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  26. garter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Wedding Paper Divas Glossary (No longer online)
  3. garter: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
noun:  (heraldry) A bendlet.
verb:  (transitive) to fasten with a garter
verb:  (intransitive) To wear a garter

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