Definition of "strut" [strut]

• To walk with pompous bearing; swagger. (verb-intransitive)
• To display in order to impress others. Sometimes used with out: Don't strut out your resume until you have more accomplishments to list. (verb-transitive)
• To provide (a structure) with a strut or struts. (verb-transitive)
• To brace or separate with or as if with a strut. (verb-transitive)
• A pompous, self-important gait. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "This may well, I grant you, be an inequality that deserves to bechallenged — but apeing the swaggering male strut is not the way to go about it."
• "The US is our closest and only meaningful ally, the main strut of international security and the power that has, in the last resort been our friend."
• "Puffed up in strut, a gobbler presents an inviting target, but the vital area is only the size of your fist."