Definitions for buckles

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buckles buck·le

Spelling: [buhk-uh l]

IPA: /ˈbʌk əl/

Buckles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in buckles (bceklsu).

Definitions for buckles

noun

1. a clasp consisting of a rectangular or curved rim with one or more movable tongues, fixed to one end of a belt or strap, used for fastening to the other end of the same strap or to another strap.
2. any similar contrivance used for such purposes.
3. an ornament of metal, beads, etc., of similar appearance.
4. a bend, bulge, or kink, as in a board or saw blade.

Verb phrases

1. buckle down, to set to work with vigor; concentrate on one's work:
2. buckle up, to fasten one's belt, seat belt, or buckles:

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten with a buckle or buckles:
2. to shrivel, by applying heat or pressure; bend; curl.
3. to prepare (oneself) for action; apply (oneself) vigorously to something.
4. to bend, warp, or cause to give way suddenly, as with heat or pressure.

verb (used without object)

1. to close or fasten with a buckle:
2. to prepare oneself or apply oneself:
3. to bend, warp, bulge, or collapse:
4. to yield, surrender, or give way to another (often followed by under):

Origin of buckles

1300-50; Middle English bocle Anglo-French bo(u)cle, bucle Latin buc(c)ula cheekpiece (of a helmet), strip of wood, etc., resembling a cheekpiece, equivalent to bucc(a) cheek + -ula Examples for buckles

I should say that the lower chord here might buckle at any moment.

Fling this over my shoulder, and buckle it behind, will you?'

He said he will sometimes "buckle" when he thinks of her out of the blue.

Fascination was alike in her smile, and her sash, her bow, and her buckle.

"I'm walking down the road and suddenly out of the blue there's an awareness of her – and you know, I buckle," he said.

In March 2014, he decided to buckle down, eat better and exercise regularly.

In the press they were “furious lesbians” who targeted buckle “because he was a straight man.”

The scene follows in which she plays squire to Antony and helps to buckle on his armour.

Yet in Paris she failed to buckle her seat belt in a fleeing car.

"Perhaps I could help you with that buckle, Miss," she suggested, approaching.