Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. UK, informal Anything that is particularly good of its class
- n. UK, informal A very good-looking person
- n. One who sings forcefully.
- n. A song suitable for forceful singing.
Etymologies
- From belt ("sing forcefully") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The strip, rolled diligently, is what the locals call a belter, and the outfield, shorn of excess length, will allow the ball to travel.”
“New Formula One season will be 'belter' says Jenson Button”
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“A visit to the "Great White Way" of Broadway - with memories rekindled of "belter" Ethel Merman - was captured in the Irving Berlin classic tribute to performers "There's No Business Like Show Business" that had both ladies assuming a distinctively recognizable "New Yawk" accent in their singing!”
“Stoyanoff said the wicket would offer the seamers some early assistance then flatten out to a "belter", which could play into the Indians 'hands if New Zealand do not bowl well.”
“New Formula One season will be 'belter' says Jenson Button photo: Creative Commons/Phillip Asbury”
“The ball is swinging a bit, but the pitch is a belter and early impressions are that 300 is not so much par as the bare minimum.”
“Lauren Turner, the big-haired belter who would really benefit from a crème rinse.”
“It doesn't hurt that "Skyscraper" is easily the best thing she has ever recorded -- a melodramatic piano ballad with a majestic belter of a chorus, co-written and produced by hitmaker Toby Gad, who helmed Beyonce's gorgeous "If I Were a Boy.”
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“But puffs of fake smoke couldn't turn this ornate concert hall into a blues room any more than a new band and record could turn Crow into an R&B belter.”
“She's no belter but her voice has a charm in the quiet moments.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Theater: New Broadway Musical Lysistrata Jones An Air Ball
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘belter’.
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cricket
everything cricket
backlift, bail, batsman, batsmen, batswoman, batswomen, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
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Belfast lingo
Thanks to this list, if you're ever around of group of people from Belfast, you can now understand what they're saying!
swall, score, flim, whips, zoink, hack, craic, hallion, snattered, waab, boke, eejit and 20 more...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2434 more... -
i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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Beyond Fair To Middling
words or expressions which, when used with and in the sense of "it's _____" or "it's a _____" mean simply good. Or better :-)
balltearer, beauty, ripper, all good, going swimmingly, snorter, ripsnorter, cracker, belter, corker, jaffa, nifty and 44 more...
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The Best of British Slang
From the Dictionary of British Slang: Knickers in a Twist, by Jonathan Bernstein
lager lout, chiseler, play truant, wangle, belter, corker, butter up, diamond geezer, full of beans, jammy, collywobbles, a good seeing to and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for belter.
claironeill Brilliant (Belfast)
"That's a belter." Jul 27, 2011
bilby Cricket jargon - a wicket that is good for batting, i.e., for belting the ball around the field.
I can't think of an equivalent term for a wicket that is good for bowling. Bowlers' wickets are more likely to be described with specific terms, e.g. sticky dog, greentop, two-paced, etc. Nov 17, 2009
jinglebelljosie an enthusiastic opinion of a person, place, or thing.
"She's a belter, that Ms. Molly" Jun 13, 2009