belt out

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belt out (third-person singular simple present belts out, present participle belting out, simple past and past participle belted out)

  1. (informal, transitive) To sing (a song) loudly; to emit (music) loudly.
    He belted out Sweet Child of Mine at the karaoke.
    Lively show tunes being belted out by the pianist on the grand piano.
    The jukebox belted out tunes from the fifties, and waiters shouted food orders to the cooks behind the enormous steel counter.
    • 2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline[1]:
      Each and every chant from the Red Wall's burgeoning repertoire was belted out as England's fans - who vastly outnumbered the Welsh - gave it back with some gusto.

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