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  • 51belt up — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms belt up : present tense I/you/we/they belt up he/she/it belts up present participle belting up past tense belted up past participle belted up 1) to put on a seat belt in a car 2) (will you) belt up British… …

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  • 52belt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. girdle, band; stripe; zone; circuit. v. t. bind, encircle; gird; whip. See circularity, circumscription, impulse. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A long flexible strip] Syn. sash, cummerbund, obi, cincture,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 53belt — 1. noun 1) the belt of her coat Syn: sash, girdle, strap, cummerbund, band; literary cincture; historical baldric 2) farmers in the cotton belt Syn: region, area, district, zone, sector, territor …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 54Belt — ► Nombre de cada uno de los dos estrechos que unen los mares Báltico y del Norte: el Gran Belt y el Pequeño Belt …

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  • 55Belt — Recorded as Belt, Belte, Belts, Bilt and possibly others, this is an English surname. It is occupational and usually described a maker of leather belts and straps as in the very early recording of Arnold Belt in the tax rolls known as the Feet Of …

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  • 56Belt — (Beltsee), flacher, buchtenreicher Teil der Ostsee, das Ubergangsgebiet zum Kattegat, zwischen Danemark, Deutschland und Schweden. Zum Kattegat fuhren außer dem Sund im Osten die Meeresstraßen Kleiner Belt (zwischen Funen und Jutland, an der… …

    Maritimes Wörterbuch

  • 57belt — [OE] Old English belt and related Germanic forms such as Swedish bälte point to a source in Germanic *baltjaz, which was borrowed from Latin balteus, possibly a word of Etruscan origin. The verbal idiom belt up ‘be quiet’ appears to date from… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 58belt — I v To hit hard. Say that again and I ll belt you one in the kisser! 1830s II v To sing out loudly. No one could belt  God Bless America like Kate Smith. 1950s III n A drink of hard liquor. After a day like today, I need a beltbefore going to bed …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 59belt up — PHRASAL VERB If someone tells you to belt up, they are telling you in a very impolite way to stop talking. [BRIT, INFORMAL] [V P] Chambers waved his hand. Belt up! he snapped …

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  • 60belt —    a taboo article or activity    From the slang meaning a blow. It is used of copulation, illegal narcotics, and other taboos.    A belt is also a drink of spirits:     Dundee and Spencer had a couple of belts on the drive into Manhattan.… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms