Abstract: In a releasable strap connector wherein the male connecting member has at least one prong insertable into a socket in the female connecting member, which socket is intersected by a transverse rocking bar, the latter being cut away at the intersection so as to leave the socket unobstructed for the insertion of the prong and being resiliently urged into an obstructing position into engagement with a pocket in the prong to hold the prong connected, and a lever being employed for rocking the bar from an obstructing to a non-obstructing position for the release of the prong; the improvement of lever locking device for locking the bar against accidental oscillation which includes a pair of hollow legs of said lever telescoping on registering arms of the rocking bar and springs in the hollow legs urging the legs and the locking lever upwardly away from said bar; the connecting top of the locking lever has a pin extending laterally from each side thereof, each pin riding in an adjacent guide in the frame of the femal