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View definitions for waistband

waistband

noun as in belt

noun as in girdle

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Participants wore waistband pedometers to track physical activity and underwent PET scans to measure amyloid-beta plaques and tau tangles in the brain.

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So we sink into the couch, plates on laps, clothed in pants with elastic waistbands.

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In Santa Ana, another pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it at activists who had been trailing him from a distance in their car.

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“He only uses one hand when he signs. If you think about it, maybe he has a gun in the other hand, or maybe the gun is in his waistband,” he said.

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Metoyer told the police after he was arrested that he was defending himself after Hoque had made offensive gestures and reached for a gun in his waistband.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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