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bread⋅bas⋅ket

  [bred-bas-kit, -bah-skit]
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–noun
1. a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
2. an agricultural area that provides large amounts of food, esp. grain, to other areas.
3. Slang. a person's stomach or abdomen.
–adjective
4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a geographical breadbasket: Iowa is a breadbasket state.
Origin:
1545–55; bread + basket
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Eucalyptus Bread Basket
Bread warmer ceramic woven baskets All colors & shapes factory direct.
www.Eucalyptus-Stoneware.com
Buy Monks' Bread Online
Bread By Trappist Monks Since 1953 Preserves,Cakes,Coffee,Mustards
monksbread.com/store/index.php
Slang Dictionary
breadbasket

and dinner basket
  1. n.
    the belly; the stomach. : I hit him, pow, right in the breadbasket. , I have a little pain in the dinner basket.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bread-basket 
1552, "basket for holding bread," from bread + basket. Slang meaning "stomach" is attested from 1753, esp. in pugilism.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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