A backpack strap is the band that goes over your shoulder to carry your bag. Two of them, padded if you are lucky.
Adjusting them properly matters more than most people realise, since a strap set too long puts the weight on your lower back rather than your shoulders. Walking rucksacks add a chest strap and a hip belt, which take most of the load off the shoulders entirely. A broken backpack strap is one of the most annoying failures there is, since the bag becomes almost uncarryable at once.
1phrasebackpack strapThe shoulder band used to carry a backpack.
“One backpack strap had frayed right through.”
Also accepted in games: strap, shoulder strap
Practised in School & Learning, A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 15 of A Man Called Ove.
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