Clues for the word "BUCKLE"
We've had 28 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 44 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on September 27, 2025.
Definition of buckle
- n. - A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
- n. - A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
- n. - A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
- n. - A contorted expression, as of the face.
- n. - To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
- n. - To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
- n. - To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
- n. - To join in marriage.
- v. i. - To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
- v. i. - To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
- v. i. - To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
- v. i. - To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
Referring Clues
- Belt feature
- Belt part
- Belt holder
- Belt fastener
- Cave somewhat
- Word that can mean "join together" or "fall apart"
- Bend to fasten shoe, perhaps
- Fastening for a strap
- Collapse under pressure
- Belt up or bend over
- Fastener apt to give way?
- Collapse, with universal investment in US bank?
- Give a dollar - a share of the dole
- Shoe or belt fastening
- Fastener
- Bend - warp
- Get down to fastening
- Belt clasp
- Distort the French dollar exchange
- Bend out of shape
- Bend almost all of shield
- Crumple
- Fastening for a belt
- Bend
- Give way and shut up
- Belt hardware
- Ornate part of a belt, perhaps
- Fastener apt to give way?
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - September 27, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 28, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 18, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 23, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 25, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 31, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 15, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 28, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 01, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 07, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - March 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 22, 2022
- Daily Quick - June 25, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - December 02, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 28, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - August 27, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 01, 2017
- Your Life Choices - July 17, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - April 07, 2017
- Guardian Quick - December 29, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 14, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - August 15, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - August 12, 2016
- Guardian Quick - June 25, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2015
- And in 14 more crossword puzzles...