Definitions for belts

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belts belt

Spelling: [belt]

IPA: /bɛlt/

Belts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in belts (belst).

Definitions for belts

noun

1. a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
2. any encircling or transverse band, strip, or stripe.
3. an elongated region having distinctive properties or characteristics:
4. Machinery. an endless flexible band passing about two or more pulleys, used to transmit motion from one pulley to the other or others or to convey materials and objects.
5. Military. a cloth strip with loops or a series of metal links with grips, for holding cartridges fed into an automatic gun. a band of leather or webbing, worn around the waist and used as a support for weapons, ammunition, etc.
6. a series of armor plates forming part of the hull of a warship.
7. a broad, flexible strip of rubber, canvas, wood, etc., moved along the surface of a fresh concrete pavement to put a finish on it after it has been floated.
8. a road, railroad, or the like, encircling an urban center to handle peripheral traffic.
9. Slang. a hard blow or hit.
10. Slang. a shot of liquor, especially as swallowed in one gulp.
11. Automotive. a strip of material used in a type of motor-vehicle tire (belted tire) where it is placed between the carcass and the tread for reinforcement.

Idioms

1. below the belt, not in accord with the principles of fairness, decency, or good sportsmanship:
2. tighten one's belt, to undergo hardship patiently. to curtail one's expenditures; be more frugal:
3. under one's belt, Informal. in one's stomach, as food or drink: considered as a matter of successful past experience:

verb (used with object)

1. to gird or furnish with a belt.
2. to surround or mark as if with a belt or band:
3. to fasten on (a sword, gun, etc.) by means of a belt.
4. to beat with or as if with a belt, strap, etc.
5. Slang. to hit very hard, far, etc.:
6. Informal. to sing (a song) loudly and energetically (sometimes followed by out):
7. Slang. to drink (a shot of liquor) quickly, especially in one gulp (sometimes followed by down):

Origin of belts

before 1000; Middle English; Old English; compare Old High German balz; both Latin balteus; see balteus

Examples for belts

The knife looked terrible; but it was sheathed and tucked into a belt.

The belt and the guns were tossed onto the bed, and Hal Dozier sat down.

He would laboriously make his way from desk to loo, belt down a few, then return.

Det. 2: No, not your belt . . . . Remember being out in the sunroom, the room that sits out to the back of the house?

Now they are a notch on a belt, and the savior can feel good about themselves.

Brace your belt, Watkins, man, and swing your shoulders as a free companion should.

I have a bag at my belt, camarade, and you have but to put your fist into it for what you want.

It was late in my career and I was already famous with hundreds of movies under my belt, but nothing like this.

They, therefore, persuaded Sir Hyde to prefer the passage of the belt.

With one successful mission under its belt, the OSS began to use Schwend as a “bird dog” for other hidden assets.