noun 1.the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
2.the stomach with its adjuncts.
3.appetite or capacity for food; gluttony.
5.the inside or interior of anything: the belly of a ship.
EXPAND6.a protuberant or bulging surface of anything: the belly of a flask.
7.Anatomy. the fleshy part of a muscle.
8.the front, inner, or under surface or part, as distinguished from the back.
9.the front surface of a violin or similar instrument.
10.a bulge on a vertical surface of fresh concrete.
11.the underpart of the fuselage of an airplane.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object) 12.to fill out; swell: Wind bellied the sails.
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Go belly up
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verb (used without object) 13.to swell out: Sails bellying in the wind.
14.to crawl on one's belly: soldiers bellying through a rice paddy.
Verb phrase15.belly up, Informal. a.to approach closely, especially until one is in physical contact: to belly up to a bar.
b.to curry favor from: Would you have gotten the promotion if you hadn't bellied up to the boss?
Idiom16.go/turn belly up, Informal. to come to an end; die; fail: After years of barely surviving on donations, the neighborhood social club finally went belly up.
Origin:
before 950; Middle English bely, Old English belig, belg bag, skin; cognate with German Balg, Gothic balgs, Old Norse belgr sack; akin to Welsh bol(a), boly, Irish bolg sack, belly, bellows, Serbo-Croatian blàzina, Latvian pabàlsts, Avestan barəziš-, Persian bālish cushion
Related formsbel·ly·like, adjective