hammer loop

Feeling self-conscious, he pulled it from her grasp and dropped it into his hammer loop.

Unconsciously he stroked the head of the hammer looped at his belt-his own favorite weapon.

Then Raymond walks out of the back of the apartment with a hammer looped over his pen."

He looked down and saw not his hammer but the forked stick in his hammer loop.

An ice hammer looped by its thong to his wrist, the rope fastened around his waist, and he was ready.

A 'hammer loop' is usually located on the right leg; although this was originally designed to be useful, most carpenters do not use the loop, because the hammer often falls out or bangs around the leg.

Despite this feature however, carpenter jeans were quite popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s hip hop scene especially those by the Tommy Hilfiger brand who sported their trademark logo on the hammer loop.