Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The soft belly or underside of an animal's body.
- noun The bottom side or part.
- noun The vulnerable or weak part or aspect.
- noun The corrupt or immoral part or aspect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The lower ventral part of the abdomen of an animal, especially one that walks on four feet.
- noun The surface of an object closest to the ground, especially of an extended object such as an airplane.
- noun The weak point of an object vulnerable to attack; used especially in the phrase “the soft
underbelly ”.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun figuratively The side which is not normally seen
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being weak or unprotected
- noun lower side
- noun the soft belly or underside of an animal's body
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Examples
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The stupidity that excretes from the mouths of the rightwing underbelly is just astonishing
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Hey Dougie, thank you for confirming my 1st post: "The stupidity that excretes from the mouths of the rightwing underbelly is just astonishing."
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Okay, at the risk of revealing my soggy, maudlin underbelly ... this made me a smidgen weepy.
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I also note that your puritanical underbelly is showing.
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Our underbelly is showing and we are no longer safe.
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Rome's underbelly is gradually revealed, and each book spirals you further in and further down into real Roman life.
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Looking out his window, he had time to think just three things: The wheels are up, the underbelly is white, and "man, that guy is low."
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Trig’s real mom, suggests the internet underbelly, is Sarah’s teenage daughter, Bristol.
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Us people in developed nations prefer to call our underbelly a gunt.
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He can eat the underbelly, which is real soft, where there's no quills.
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fbharjo commented on the word underbelly
under-bell-ly
April 28, 2011