noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a belly laugh (= a deep loud laugh )
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It’s the kind of comedy that raises a smile rather than a belly laugh.
beer belly
belly button
belly dance
belly flop
belly laugh
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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She's got a bigger belly than Natalie.
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His big belly hangs out from under his short shirt.
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She's a large, slouchy lady with a big pot belly which she doesn't try to hide.
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You saw the top of his head and his big belly sticking up.
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You're just being greedy, you lot, she shouted, your eyes are bigger than your bellies .
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Blake was a doughy man with a big belly .
■ NOUN
beer
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So even two-player matches are like watching two top pros playing, albeit without the glorious sight of their beer bellies !
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The contractor was a tall man with a beer belly and a cowboy hat.
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The kite refers to a beer belly .
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Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly , thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.
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Both had skinhead haircuts and both wore identical grey tracksuits that hugged their large beer bellies .
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She was grizzled old woman with a beer belly and voice to match, and she knew something about justice.
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He had a beer belly that hung over the top of his filthy jeans.
button
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The belly button was protruding and it looked ready to burst.
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A man with monogrammed shirts, a maid, a mansion, and all he wanted was to finger her belly button .
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The ruby in her belly button stayed put.
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In the early 1960s and 1970s and in the mid 1990s shrunken tight clothing often exposed the belly button .
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His checked shirt was pulled out of his pants, and his belly button was showing.
dancer
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Tables of the Merciful are also set up across the country by the armed forces, businesses and belly dancers .
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Why, a room full of belly dancers , of course.
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The festivities last week started with Christmas music and ended, much later, with belly dancers and congratulations all around.
flop
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The rest of the league has been waiting for a belly flop , but the Giants' cagey right-hander refuses to wilt.
laugh
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A good, satisfying belly laugh .
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What used to cause a belly laugh now earns a pleasant chuckle.
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It was a fun evening that ricocheted between giggle, belly laugh and roar.
pot
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However it's unlikely her pot belly will disappear.
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For instance, Mr Culboon and his wife both had big old floppy pot bellies .
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She's a large, slouchy lady with a big pot belly which she doesn't try to hide.
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Faces aflame with drink, grotesque moustaches, pot bellies ... I seemed to have stumbled into a painting by Hogarth.
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One of the pot bellies was mine.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fire in your belly
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It stung the back of her throat and fired in her belly.
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Three years later, he returned; heavier, slower, but with a new kind of fire in his belly.
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You have got the fire in your belly that will make an excellent detective novel.
have eyes bigger than your belly
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everybody should go home with full bellies tonight.
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She lay on her belly in the long grass.
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the belly of an airplane
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Half way up the drive, Wayne started pawing his belly and rolling the whites of his eyes.
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He kicked Charlie in the belly as soon as they got out of the car.
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I had scored, but no football in my belly at the end, just six points.
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I lay on my stomach, on his bed, a white gym-towel under my belly .
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Protruding from his belly was an ugly purple scar.
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Your belly is very furry and quite sweet.