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n. - Elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural).

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  • The gallus is a wondrous bird, its second wing grows from the first.
  • A second set of flapless wings, the fourth is tucked behind the third; a lump of meat that never sings, the gallus is a wondrous bird.
  • With one "gallus" to pants that were rolled to the knee,
  • The Scots word is "gallus", a bare-faced, cheeky bravado that aims to add humiliation to a defeat.
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