n.
  - a bar forming part of a framework and designed to resist compression.
 - a strutting gait.
 
v.
 (struts, strutting, strutted)
  - walk with a stiff, erect, and conceited gait.
 - brace with a strut or struts.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    
      - strut one's stuff
 informal dance or behave in a confident and expressive way. 
    
   
  Derivative
  
    - strutter n.
  - strutting adj.
  - struttingly adv.
 
   
  Etymology
  OE strūtian ‘protrude stiffly’, of Gmc origin.