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bellied up

vb. (en-pastbelly up)

Usage examples of "bellied up".

Shea saw them ride in and reported to me at once and I went down to the saloon where they had bellied up to the bar.

Thick dust bellied up in a cloud, through which a single sun-ray that entered the cobwebbed pane shot a radiant arrow.

As incongruous as a harlot in a temple or a cowled priest bellied up to a raucous bar.

Most of them are pretty-boy types, which the girls may swoon over but which any solid male bellied up to a bar can instantly dismiss with a sneer.

He bellied up to the smaller than usual bar and told the corporal behind it he wanted a beer and a rundown on the visit of Black Jack Junior, in that order.

A heavyset dark man with a billowing saffron shirt bellied up to another table, his spindly arms working his utensils like pistons.

On the morning of the sixtieth day of Winter, the storm that had bellied up the river and provided cover for Saumer to enter Faolain Lowland drew its last wispy veils north.

The smoke that bellied up concealed their movements as they scuttled through.

The next shuttle bellied up to the transfer tubing, and repeated the unloading maneuver.

A handful of them sat at tables while the rest were bellied up to the bar erected along the flat wall.

His men bellied up to the long teak bar with a will, and when they raised their tankards and grinned at him, their masks of packed dust cracked and powdered into their beer.

She managed to loose off a couple of shots that drove their pursuer back into the hotel while smoke bellied up from her pistol and hung in the air like wet fog.