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corn belt
noun
the Midwestern United States US- [Z]igzagged through corn belts and cotton belts (this is not too clear, I am afraid, Clarence, but I did not keep any notes)[.] — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, p. 154, 1955
- Setting out on a tour of the Corn Belt in a tubercular jalopy, Oscar informed the suckers that research had disclosed that they were descendants of the illegitimate Drake boy. — San Francisco Examiner, American Weekly, p. 17, 24 May 1959
- In addition, those photographs could earn those corn-belt clods a fortune in some photographic contest. — John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, pp. 231–232, 1980
- Dean could have come out of the Corn Belt with a dismal third-placing showing. But finish third and appear un-presidential in the process? — Arizona Republic, p. 10B, 28 January 2004
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