lanyard
Other forms: lanyards
A lanyard is a type of strap or cord with a hook for your I.D. card or keys. Reporters often wear a lanyard with a badge that reads "Press."
If you've attended summer camp on a university campus or gotten a backstage pass to a rock concert, you've probably worn a lanyard around your neck that identified what you were doing there. Doctors and nurses in hospitals often wear these identification lanyards, and so do people at conventions and workers in prisons. Smaller lanyards hold keys, whistles, or flash drives. The original lanyards were nautical, used to raise the sails on a sailboat.
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a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle
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a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon
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(nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships
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