- 1a long narrow piece of leather, cloth, etc. that you wear around the waist to buckle/fasten/tighten a belt a belt buckle see black belt, seat belt
- 2a continuous band of material that moves around and is used to carry things along, or to drive machinery see conveyor belt, fan belt
- 3an area with particular characteristics or where a particular group of people live the country's corn/sun belt a belt of rain moving across the country see Bible Belt, green belt
- 4(informal) an act of hitting something or someone hard She gave the ball a huge belt. Idioms
(of a remark) unfair or cruel That really hit him below the belt!
to have already achieved or obtained something She already has a couple of good wins under her belt.
to spend less money because there is less available My parents really had to tighten their belts after my mother retired. see belt-tightening
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