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belt up

verb

  1. slang.
    to become or cause to become silent; stop talking: often used in the imperative
  2. to fasten with or by a belt, esp a seat belt


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Example: “The same poli from the boardwalk—Officer Mustache—hitched his belt up under his chubby belly and approached the scene.”

Simon gave me a little more of his meal this morning, and went without himself: I took my belt up three holes to relieve hunger.

They laughed at his notion of it, and Seth Barker sympathetically pegged his belt up one.

But at the time that he was firing the gun, a possibility from his belt up.

One more notch Ill take my belt up, and after that you watch me toddle for that Paradise ahead.

She threatens periodically to burn the belt up and throw the old rifles out of the house.

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