belly


Definition: Meaning of, belly in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈbɛli /

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Singular Plural
belly bellies
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  1. your stomach
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  2. British English the front part of your body between your chest and your legs [=  abdomen]
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  3. the middle part of an animal's body, near its stomach
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  4. literary a curved or rounded part of an object
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  5. black-bellied/fat-bellied/big-bellied etc having a black, fat, big etc stomach
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  6. go belly up informal if a business or company goes belly up, it stops operating because it cannot pay its debts
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
belly bellied bellied
Present Participle Third Person Singular
bellying bellies
also belly out [intransitive] [literary]
  1. to fill with air and become rounder in shape
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belly used in phrases

  • beer belly (noun)
    1. an unattractive fat stomach caused by drinking too much beer
  • belly button (noun)
    1. the small round mark in the middle of your stomach [=  navel]
  • belly dance (noun)
    1. a dance from the Middle East in which a woman moves her stomach and HIP s around
  • belly dancer (noun)
    1. a woman who performs a solo belly dance
  • belly dancing (noun)
    1. a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen
  • belly flop (noun)
    1. a way of jumping into water, in which the front of your body falls flat against the surface of the water
  • belly flopper (noun)
    1. a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water
  • belly laugh (noun)
    1. a deep loud laugh
  • belly out (verb)
    1. swell out or bulge out
  • belly whop (noun)
    1. a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water
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