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Plural of holster

regular plural

The plural of holster is holsters.

Forms of holster

Singularholster /ˈhɒlstə(ɹ)/
Pluralholsters
Countablecountable

Holsters in a sentence

  • I saw with a sinking heart that their revolver holsters also were gone.1914, John Reed Scott, The Duke of Oblivion, page 208. From the entry unarmedness
  • Culhane turned up his palms in a vague gesture of surrender that brought both hands an inch closer to the smoke wagons slung in his holsters.2018 August, Eric Red, chapter 37, in Noose (A Joe Noose Western), New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN…. From the entry smoke wagon
  • A lanky werelioness with black, spiky hair—and two semiautomatic pistols in holsters that formed an X on her chest— sprawled in a chair outside the door.2015, Ally Shields, Eternal Fires, Etopia Press, →ISBN. From the entry werelioness
  • Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters.2009, J. Scott Turner, The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, page 15. From the entry megameter

Meaning of holster

  1. noun A case for carrying a tool, particularly a gun, safely and accessibly.
  2. noun A belt with loops or slots for carrying small tools or other equipment.
  3. verb To put something in a holster.

Full definition of holster

Questions about the plural of holster

What is the plural of holster?
The plural of holster is holsters.
Is holster countable?
Holster is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holster (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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