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breadbasket
noun
the stomach UK, 1785- I had to stand on top of the pile trying to catch four or five bricks at a time when the man below heaved them at me. The first batch caught me right in the breadbasket and bounced square on my toe. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 36, 1946
- I pivoted like a soldier doing an aboutface and planted my right in Pansy-face’s bread basket[.] — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 110, 1966
- “Come on, you pup, you’re up against Gerry O’Byrne!” and laid the fellow out with an almighty haymaker in the breadbasket. — Aidan Higgins, Donkey’s Years, p. 149, 1995
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