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belly

Definition

  • noun: a person's stomach or the part of the body that contains the stomach
  • noun: the stomach and its adjuncts
  • verb: to cause (something, such as a sail) to curve or bulge outward
  • verb: to cause to swell or fill out
  • synonyms: abdomen, potbelly, fill

Examples

  • The business 'went belly-up' [=went bankrupt] during the long recession.

  • The team 'went belly-up' in the play-offs.

  • a middle-aged man with a big 'beer belly'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Oh, God. Forgive me. I'll be buying in feed before winter's over. Well, you don't press people hard, but you live rightly. For your soul, not your belly. How do we know what's rightly? Just by knowing it. How else? But I believe in reason. Reason. Was it reason that made you choose your wife? (..)
    2012 Anna Karenina