Usually means: Strap for securing or accessorizing.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. belt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. belt, the belt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. belt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. belt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. belt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Belt, belt: Wordnik
  7. belt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Belt: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Belt, belt: Wiktionary
  10. belt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. belt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. belt: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. belt: Dictionary.com
  14. belt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. belt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Belt (clothing), Belt (firearm), Belt (firearms), Belt (mechanical), Belt (music), Belt, The Belt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Belt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. belt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. belt: Rhymezone
  20. belt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. belt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Belt: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. belt: Free Dictionary
  24. belt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. belt: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. belt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Belt: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belt: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Belt (firearm), Belt (mechanical), belt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. belt: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BELT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. belt: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. belt, belt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. belt: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Belt: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Belt: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. The Belt: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Belt: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

(Note: See belted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (clothing) A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
noun:  A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
noun:  A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
noun:  Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
noun:  A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
noun:  (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
noun:  (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
noun:  (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
noun:  A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
noun:  A quick drink of liquor.
noun:  (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
noun:  (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
noun:  (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
noun:  (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
noun:  (geography, geology) A mostly-continuous, often curvilinear structure expressed on the surface or in the subsurface of a terrestrial planet or other solid planemo, such as a mountain belt, a fold and thrust belt, or an ore belt.
verb:  (transitive) To encircle.
verb:  (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
verb:  (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
verb:  (transitive) To hit with a belt.
verb:  (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.
verb:  (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
verb:  (intransitive) To move very fast.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A town in Montana
noun:  Ellipsis of Main Asteroid Belt. A region of Solar System [Synonym of main belt]

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