belting
noun
[ ˈbɛltɪŋ ]
• belts collectively, or material for belts.
• "a small piece of plastic belting"
• a beating, especially with a belt as a punishment.
• "we were dead lucky to get to bed without a belting"
belting
adjective
• outstanding.
• "they've come up with some belting songs"
belt
verb
• fasten with a belt.
• "she belted her raincoat firmly"
• hit (someone or something) hard.
• "she belted him over the head with her racquet"
• rush or dash in a specified direction.
• "he belted out of the side door"
Similar:
speed,
hurry,
race,
run,
sprint,
dash,
bolt,
dart,
rush,
hasten,
hurtle,
career,
streak,
shoot,
whizz,
zoom,
go like lightning,
go hell for leather,
spank along,
bowl along,
rattle along,
whirl,
whoosh,
buzz,
swoop,
flash,
blast,
charge,
stampede,
gallop,
sweep,
hare,
fly,
wing,
scurry,
scud,
scutter,
scramble,
pelt,
tear,
hotfoot it,
zap,
zip,
whip,
scoot,
scorch,
burn rubber,
go like a bat out of hell,
bomb,
bucket,
shift,
put one's foot down,
go like the clappers,
leg it,
wheech,
clip,
boogie,
hightail,
barrel,
lay rubber,
get the lead out,
fleet,
post,
hie,
drive,
drag/tear/haul ass,
• gulp (a drink) quickly.
• "cocktails should be sipped and savoured, not belted down"
Origin:
Old English, of Germanic origin, from Latin balteus ‘girdle’.
