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midriff

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midriff
1. 
a. the middle part of the human body, esp between waist and bust
b. (as modifier): midriff bulge
2. Anatomy another name for the diaphragm
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202-223) First Loud-croaker wounded Lickman in the belly, right through the midriff.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
As he stood there, gazing into the middle distance, an individual of dishevelled aspect sidled up, a vagrant of almost the maximum seediness, from whose midriff there protruded a trayful of a strange welter of collar-studs, shoe-laces, rubber rings, buttonhooks, and dying roosters.
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
In truth, hardy as the man was, his neck had been assuredly broken had he not pitched head first on the very midriff of the drunken artist, who was slumbering so peacefully in the corner, all unaware of these stirring doings.
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