Definitions

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  • noun A belt incorporating a holster for a gun.

Etymologies

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gun +‎ belt

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Examples

  • She was leaning with her back against the hotel wall which was papered over with a faded mural, her thumbs tucked in her gunbelt, staring at nothing and everything, including, it turned out, me.

    In my New York City, the cops wink at you and mean it. 2009

  • I am trying to make Han Solos holster and gunbelt from star wars and need to know what materials should I use. it needs to be a brown leather/like matterial.

    Holster Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • She was leaning with her back against the hotel wall which was papered over with a faded mural, her thumbs tucked in her gunbelt, staring at nothing and everything, including, it turned out, me.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • Both smelled of gunpowder and I noticed that only empty shells were in the loops of his gunbelt.

    On Dear Days Gone By 2008

  • After a few minutes of conversation we mentioned his two sidearms that were in finely tooled holsters on a splendid gunbelt.

    On Dear Days Gone By 2008

  • Silence falls as he limps up the the bar - no sound anywhere in the saloon except for the jingle of his gunbelt.

    Making Light: Open thread 137 2010

  • Is it just me, or does it look like David and Chuck are about to make sweet love to each other when Chuck drops his gunbelt?

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • The tall man squatted down, his gunbelt creaking, his knees popping.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Wilson sits at a table slurping coffee, and in walks Shane wearinga spotless fringed-buckskin suit, a silver-concho gunbelt, a tooled-leather holster, and a nickel-plated ivory-handled Peacemaker.

    Shane, Revisited 2007

  • With parents vacationing in Mexico, the kid had slipped into his stepfather's uniform and gunbelt, lifted the keys to the green-and-white, and gone joyriding.

    Norm Stamper: Ambush of a Cop 2009

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