BELT UP Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

belt up

verb

Definition of belt up

British

as in to quiet (down)

to stop talking the schoolboy ordered his mates to belt up about the prank

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Recent Examples of belt up The Paramount+ streaming event finds two UFC belts up for grabs at the top of the card. — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 Going back home Sunday looks nice, except for the Lake Effect Snow belt up in New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan. — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024 So getting some of those at-bats under his belt up here will be part of that. — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022 Designed to attach to a belt up to 2½ inches wide or to a PALS system, the pouch comes very close to duplicating the performance of an OWB holster. — Mike Dickerson, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2020

Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt up

Verb

Rockwood closed the mine in 1988 as lithium demand dried up and the company moved to more cost-effective brine deposits in other countries.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2026
Higher temperatures speed up insect activity and dry up natural water and nectar sources.

— Nick Perry, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of dry up

Verb

Ted Cruz tells moderate Republicans to 'shut up' and support PaxtonNeed a news break?

— Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Commentators hungry for superstar validation of their culture war were calling her silence a moral failure, and some of them were the same people who, in previous news cycles, had insisted that athletes needed to shut up.

— Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of shut up

Verb

The park has already taken some steps to hush their new attraction.

— Lynette Rice, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026
His lead trial attorney, Edward Bilinkas, a dapper New Jersey man then nearing seventy, had the courtroom delivery of a schoolteacher trying to hush nonsense at the back of the class by raising his own voice.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026