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belting up

belting up is the present participle and gerund of belt up.

Meaning of belt up

Verb

belt up (third-person singular simple present belts up, present participle belting up, simple past and past participle belted up)

  1. (UK, intransitive) To fasten one's seat belt.
    Synonyms:
    buckle up
  2. (UK, colloquial, derogatory, imperative, intransitive, regional) To stop talking or chattering; to shut up.
  3. (slang, transitive) To beat up (someone).

Questions about belting up

What is belting up the present participle and gerund of?
Belting up is the present participle and gerund of belt up.

Words near belting up in the dictionary

  1. Beltian body
  2. Beltin
  3. belting
  4. belting down
  5. belting out
  6. belting up
  7. beltings
  8. Beltir
  9. Beltis
  10. beltless
  11. beltlessly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belting up (page history and authors); belt up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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