sock suspender

noun

, British.

1. garter ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of sock suspender¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

If anything he welcomed their appearance and devoted the short periods when the light was on to shooting at them with a catapult fashioned from the elastic of a sock suspender and a piece of angle iron detached from the underside of a broken armchair.

From Project Gutenberg