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- noun Attributive form of
fan belt
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Examples
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A man who takes a picture in front of his sports car is compensating for something below the belt and I'm not talking about the fan-belt.
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He also called for the expulsion of all foreign Muslim university students in the United States and for profiling of airline passengers ‘with a diaper on their head and a fan-belt around their waist.’
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I strolled behind him as he climbed onto a wheel, bent down over the engine, and began removing a fan-belt nut.
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I strolled behind him as he climbed onto a wheel, bent down over the engine, and began removing a fan-belt nut.
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He caught it in a fan-belt, and his rovin 'days are over.
Whiskey in the Jar 1997
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Upon observing that the fan-belt was broken, it was natural that I should regret very much that I had not looked for the trouble when first I suspected its presence.
Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922
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One sympathetic family gave them an in-car DVD player to help pacify Jakob on longer drives, while a pair of Polish truckers came to their rescue when the van's fan-belt broke on the border between Belgium and France.
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One sympathetic family gave them an in-car DVD player to help pacify Jakob on longer drives, while a pair of Polish truckers came to their rescue when the van's fan-belt broke on the border between Belgium and France.
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BILOXI - A fan-belt problem with an air-conditioning unit at St. Patrick Catholic High School is the reason alarms sounded this morning, prompting an evacuation of 528 students, said Harrison County Fire Marshal George Mixon.
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Last September I bought a 1.3 litre, chain driven (substitution for a fan-belt), ten-year old Skoda from a Romanian IT employee who pronounced his name as 'Knee-high.'
unknown title 2009
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