2.American EnglishAmEDCC one of four pieces of elastic fixed to a woman’s underwear and to her stockings to hold them up 〔女子内衣上用以固定长筒袜的〕吊袜带SYN British English suspender
Examples from the Corpus
garter• What is a garterbarsupposed to do?• A checkeredgartersnake gave birth to three baby snakes in the gingerbelt at the edge of the rainforest.• If Jake found out he would have her guts for garters!• Her garters were down to her ankles.• Legs green with red garter, bill red with yellowtip.• She did this every evening, and every evening a hundred hands went up to catch the garter.• Baldwin became an earl and a knight of the garter.• Knitting as much as possible with the gartercarriage is not always the quickest way to complete a garment.
Origingarter
(1300-1400)Old North Frenchgartier, from garet“bend of the knee”