lanyard

noun lanyards · laniard

1. A short rope used for fastening rigging, as a handle, etc. "Take ahold here, an' keep ringin' steady," said Dan, passing Harvey the lanyard of a bell that hung just behind the windlass.
2. broadly A cord worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist which is attached to a small object to be carried such as an identity card or security pass, key, knife, or whistle. Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible. [...] [H]e would hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch, now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as another man could walk.
3. A craft activity done by intricately braiding thin colored plastic lines to make patterns, or the product of such a craft. It's lanyard. It's a camp tradition. You'll have about a million lanyard key chains by the time the summer is over.
4. broadly A cord with a hook which is secured to an artillery piece, and pulled to fire the weapon.
5. UK, derogatory A civil servant or mid-level bureaucrat, viewed as officious and overly concerned with social justice. Completely agree. Nowhere more so than in Scotlsnd^([sic]), where the lanyards are making a mockery of how a parliament should work.