rubber band

plural rubber bands

1. An elastic band made of rubber (either natural rubber or synthetic rubber).

   Synonyms: elastic band, gum band, lacquer band, lacky band

present singular third person rubber bands · participle present rubber banding · participle past rubber banded · past rubber banded

1. alternativeAlternative form of rubber-band.

   Prompt them to pick up ten sticks, rubber band them together, and quickly move them to the tens office.

   2005, Sarah Morgan Major, Place Value, →ISBN, page 22

   2 more examples

   My mother gave me maybe 150 to 200 letters, […] all rubber banded together month by month and in dates.

   1994 September 26, Wayne McGinnis, interview printed in 2000, by Jean Shellenbarger in The 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam, page 201

   There were yellowed pages of base layouts and plans, a duty roster, and a rubber banded package of papers.

   2012, Cheryl Kerr, See Ya, →ISBN, page 130