A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
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.
One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
A quick drink of liquor.
A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
To fasten a belt on.
To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
To hit with a belt.
To scream or sing in a loud manner.
To move very fast.
To encircle.
To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
To hit someone or something.
To drink quickly, often in gulps.
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.