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  • noun Attributive form of fan belt

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Examples

  • 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.

    Jill Brown: Fearless Internet Dating 2008

  • 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.’

    Think Progress » Execution turns Saddam into martyr. 2007

  • I strolled behind him as he climbed onto a wheel, bent down over the engine, and began removing a fan-belt nut.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • I strolled behind him as he climbed onto a wheel, bent down over the engine, and began removing a fan-belt nut.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • He caught it in a fan-belt, and his rovin 'days are over.

    Whiskey in the Jar 1997

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • 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.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • 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.

    SunHerald.com: Featured Story 2009

  • 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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