How to pronounce belt

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What belt means

verb

Most people know belt in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To sing out very loudly and with great force

In a sentence: Rosa likes to belt out her favorite song while she cleans her room.

Where it comes from: It is the same word as the belt you wear. That word goes back through old Germanic languages to the Latin word balteus, meaning a belt.

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