"Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the word tie-wrap.

You might try using the wildcards * and ? to find the word you're looking for. For example, use

tie-*to search for words beginning with tie-, or
*wrapto search for words ending with wrap

If you're sure it's a word, try doing a general web search for tie-wrap: Google, AltaVista, other sources..."

http://www.onelook.com/?w=tie-wrap&ls=a

Other possible words might be twistie, twist-tie, cable tie, etc. Please research your suggestion before proposing an entry to the dictionary.

Wieder einmal werden wir mit Belegen aus dem "Invisible Dictionary of Contemporary English" und der telepathiebasierten Ausgabe des Dudens überschüttet.

If I remember rightly Tie Wrap is (or was?) a trade mark name for a Kabelbinder made by Scotch (3M):
http://www.3m.com/Product/information/Scotch-...

if this is the case then it is not unusual for this to not appear in a dictionary
It is a term not sufficiently widespread for it to have become the generic name for Kabelbinder, (as Hoover is for vacuum cleaner, or Kleenex for paper handkerchief), but it is the usual everyday term for it in electrical, wiring, cabling, concert, lighting contexts (or any contexts in which Kabelbinder are used.

I would not hesitate to say that I knew of no other term for these things when I first started using them than Tie Wrap

See also the pictures here: http://images.google.de/images?svnum=10&hl=de...

if these aren't Kabelbinder, and therefore correctly named tie wraps, then I don't know what are....
:o)

Supported

Before posting my comment yesterday, I also did a Google image search and concluded that the suggestion was probably valid. However, it would have been nice to have Pad provide some references himself ...

(Grudgingly) supported.

Ich arbeite bei LIEBHERR in Irland und wir nutzen fuer Kabelbinder ausschliesslich den Begriff TIE WRAP.

Supported.

Eine weitere, wenn auch nicht allgemein anerkannte Quelle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_tie

"A cable tie (coll. also "strap", "rat belt", "mouse belt", "tie wrap", or "zip tie") is a type of fastener, especially for binding several electronic cables or wires together, and to organize cables and wires."

Schreibweise ohne Bindestrich scheint gängiger zu sein.

Tyrap ist eine Bezeichnung von Thomas & Betts und wird wie TESA oder PRITT-Stift allgemein verwendet

I've always know these as cable-ties.