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belt
noun- a hit, a punch UK, 1937
- a gulp, especially of strong alcohol US, 1922
- Mrs. Larkin cried a little too and took Guido out in the garage and gave him a belt form a pint bottle of Schenley hidden behind the skid chains. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 14, 1957
- After a frustrating day at the office a couple of belts lift me out of the dumps. — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 46, 1965
- Give me a drink, fella. Gimme a belt of Scotch. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 51, 1977
- Hard day at the job, no lunch maybe, get so fuckin’ pissed off you don’t want any dinner, only thing on your mind’s a good couple of belts, huh? — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 74, 1981
- the first, strong effect of a drug US
- [W]hite women learned where they could get a “belt,” a “jolt,” or “gow.” — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, pp. 103–104, 1948
- a prostitute; any woman regarded as a sex-object AUSTRALIA
The earlier sense of “prostitute” seems to have been spread from the Australian to the British forces during World War 2 and, in so doing, broadened its intention. - — Sidney J Baker, The Australian Language, p. 123, 1945
▶ below the belt
unfair, unsportsmanlike UK, 1890
From the language of boxing, where a blow below the belt is prohibited.- Jacobs attacked the prosecution for a secret grand jury session last week. He said that the defense had been refused a transcript of the testimony. He said, “This move was below the belt.” — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 26 May 1947
- The press at first made me [Liberace] angry. I’m used to being kidded, but I didn’t expect that below-the-belt stuff. — San Francisco News, p. 23, 15 November 1956
- Hitting Ike Below The Belt [Headline] — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 24, 22 March 1957
▶ under your belt
personal experience of something UK, 1958
From an earlier use, of food in your stomach.- Get a couple of languages under your belt in this Corps and you can’t go wrong. — Beale, 1984
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