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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
midsection
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He gives her another whack in the midsection with his elbow.
▪ The midsection of the plane is broken nearly in two.
▪ Then again, Sargent might have tripped over his ample midsection, too.
Wiktionary
midsection

n. 1 The middle section of something. 2 The midriff; the section of the human torso, from below the chest to above the waist.

WordNet
midsection

n. the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" [syn: middle, midriff]

Usage examples of "midsection".

But then his thoughts slipped back to the little matter of astrogation, and he leaned back in his chair with a quiet sigh which he hoped concealed the tension coiling tighter in his midsection from any of his juniors.

Moving on the ground, Centrex picked up three, eight, nine, then lost four on a good tackle by Dennis Smee who went spinning off a block and hit the ballcarrier very hard around the midsection as he hesitated while bellying out on a sweep.

Parker held his left hand rigid, fingers together and extended, and chopped the butterball in the midsection, just above the gold monogrammed belt buckle.

The kid arched, half of him still following the parabola of his swing while the other half tried to bend away from Joe, who hit the coralroot scar again and continued to move in, staying low, pursuing the softening, collapsing midsection.

He smiled, then laughed out loud when Christie, in a floor-mounted launch of which Katya would have approved, landed against his midsection, her legs prewrapped around his waist, and planted a long, intense kiss on his lips.

The object that had just landed, a large white sphere, had extended a pair of strange, scissorlike contraptions from its midsection, and was cutting itself out of a multilayered bag that had obviously cushioned its impact on the surface.

He wore boxer shorts, decorated with small red emblems, and a sleeveless undervest taut over the vast hummock of his midsection.

From the corner of his eye, Mike saw Con aiming, unorthodoxly, the silent gun clenched in her two small fists down at her midsection.

The eyestalks bobbed above her, then the feelers swung over and probed her midsection.

Marghe sat with her back pressed against a rock wall, huddled so tight between the herders, Holle and Shill, that she looked like the midsection of some strange fur-clad mammal.

The cat yowled in distress, not the least bit amused by the rough treatment, but its struggles were in vain as Clary had a firm grip on its midsection.

I am tempted to remove my shirt and show her my trim midsection sporting chiseled abdominals, my superior shoulders and brilliantly developed pectoral-latissimus tie-in.

Via that channel she saw the thrusters burn violet-hot, jetting from pinprick-apertures around the midsection of the spider-room, where the torpedo-shaped body was attached to the turret from which sprouted the now purchaseless legs.

Bill's muscular midsection was quite red already from the numerous belly flops he'd achieved.

She reassembled the gun, then wrapped the now-dry belly-band holster around her midsection and slid the gun into it.