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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I came across the use of ‘holdster’ for ‘holster’, which strikes me as a perfectly sensible eggcorn. Getting citations is complicated by the fact that Rawlings uses ‘holdster’ to describe a feature on baseball gloves, and by a company that makes small holsters called ‘holdsters’. But here are a few citations:
“I like this a lot. But holdster belts usually have a dip and get thicker where the holdster is thus making them far sweeter than normal belts”
http://threadless.com/submission/59046/ … re,designs
“It was just me with my gas m-11 and my full metal gas M190 in my holdster vs my friend
with an AEG.”
http://supersoft18.phpbbnow.com/viewtop … 507a10d14d
“Cell phone holdsters as shown start at $50. The price depends on the amount of hand stitching and hand tooling involved. Each holdster is custom made to your specifications and desires and normally take 1 to 2 weeks to complete.”
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