noun
-
the material used to make a belt or belts
-
belts collectively
-
informal a beating
adjective
Etymology
Origin of belting
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He continued, “This is what’s on mine,” before belting out a song about how “it ain’t easy being country in this country nowadays.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
You might take a reasonable stance in the middle, acknowledging Kids is a belting track and Rudebox is awful.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
I think of Jerry Lewis in the 1950 musical-comedy “At War with the Army,” belting out the eternal grievance: The Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the beans…
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025
On Saturday they adopted more of a horseshoe, with a capacity crowd of some 82,00 at Twickenham belting out a chorus of 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' -- England's rugby anthem -- for good measure.
From Barron's • Nov. 16, 2025
We put headphones on when Didu's belting out songs about red roads, barroom brawls, magnolia blossoms, and lonely cowboys.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
