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

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But maintaining those programs has grown difficult as funding has dried up at the national, state and now local levels, Thompson said.

— Zoey Thomas, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
This would be best done in late May and early June when the leaves are drying up.

— Dr. Matthew Lisy, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of dry up

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These days we are surrounded by ghosts and gossamer visions vying for our attention, trying to tell us something vital—or as mundane as to shut up already, like in my case.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Talk is cheap, but today the automaker put up instead of shutting up by revealing a new Nissan Z concept with a factory T-top, a feature that vanished from sports cars over two decades ago.

— Joel Feder, The Drive, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of shut up

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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

Definition of hush

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