breadbasket
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7.6
- noun
- /ˈbrɛdˌbæskɪt/
- Informal
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estómago
- "I’m going to give you one right in the breadbasket," she said.
Examples
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Then I give him a sucker punch in the breadbasket, and he goes down like a ...
Fiction book (1993) -
Right in the breadbasket!
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Oh, right in the breadbasket!
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"I hit Archie twice in the breadbasket.
Fiction book (1993) -
"Square in the breadbasket," he said, pointing to the hole in the dead man's stomach.
Fiction book (1994) -
I rubbed my breadbasket.
Fiction book (1993) -
After eating too much, I felt a heavy weight in my breadbasket.
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He made a joke about his breadbasket being too full after the feast.
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After the big dinner, she complained that her breadbasket was aching.
Synonyms
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1.0
An organ in the body that mixes and partly digests food
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4.0
The stomach or belly, often the round front part of the body where food goes after you eat
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9.3
The part of the body where food goes after you eat, often used by children
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Breadbasket is used informally for the stomach because the stomach 'holds' the bread and food you eat, like a small basket. A helpful way to remember this is to picture your belly as a 'bread basket' that holds your food.