'strut' is a word in English that can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is walking confidently and proudly. For example, "He strutted down the street with his head held high."
Recorded in New York with LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, it opens with a limber strut, all undulating bass and Win Butler's breathy vocals, before briefly rising to boiling point and then simmering back down again.
The team had the strut of a prog rock group; now, this Australian XI are more like a bad cruise ship covers band.
As the crowd filed out of the SCG, their bouffant hair still studded with pieces of green and gold ticker tape, it wasn't the strut you noticed, but the smile.
Arsenal laboured for offensive inspiration and, as the minutes ticked, Bayern found their strut, even if the end product proved elusive.
Despite the jibes still thrown at his club, he didn't strut about and he would look to the intense Ramprakash and ruddy-faced Gareth Batty for advice that could appear rather more often than he would like at times.
(Hence the brisk sales of a $22 gizmo called the Knee Defender, now banned by some airlines, which attaches to a tray strut and prevents the seat in front from reclining).
That might fall to 8.5%, officials say, but no further.The final strut of the argument is that the politics are not as bad as they seem.
Batsmen swing, cheerleaders strut, and prodigious feats of scoring are followed by the quick tumble of wickets.
The Americans were guiltier than the Vietnamese or Iraqis, the magazine explained, because they had failed to elect Al Gore or Ralph Nader.On the BBC's "Question Time", in which a panel of serious people discuss the week's events, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, an Ismaili writer, spoke of "certain countries [who] strut around thinking they're better than everybody else".
In a few in-between towns like Potchefstroom, west of Johannesburg, the commercial capital, they strut their stuff.
When combative males strut their colourful stuff, they are changing the spacing within each crystal lattice, creating what are called bandgaps that permit or preclude the passage of certain colours.
