What does underbelly mean?
Definitions for underbelly
ˈʌn dərˌbɛl iun·der·bel·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
underbellynoun
lower side
"the underbellies of clouds"
underbelly, underbodynoun
the soft belly or underside of an animal's body
underbellynoun
the quality of being weak or unprotected
"the soft underbelly of the Axis"- Winston Churchill
Wiktionary
underbellynoun
The side which is not normally seen
The area by the canal is the underbelly of town - not something you'd see in the guidebooks
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of underbelly in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of underbelly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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… [F]or all the wonderful things that Google and Facebook have created, there is this underbelly that we're seeing, and I think the easiest solution — and it may not be the most popular — is you eliminate their protection from any liability. And if people have legitimate lawsuits, let them have their day in court. I can't do it, because they have unlimited protection.
Her characters are mostly black women or brown people living in a world that is deeply problematic, and it's a different underbelly than you would get in the typical L.A. crime novel, just because of who she was and what she experienced, she writes about L.A. in a different way than you would get in a Raymond Chandler novel.
There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.
People assume sports are safe, but there is an ugly underbelly we need to be mindful of, sports are a microcosm of our society, and until our society becomes more civil there is no reason to expect to see more civility in sports.
I stand up on overwatch and we start rolling forward. And 30 seconds later, I see a Marine in the open. I see a fireball. And then I see I, you know, start to feel explode, you know, start to hear the explosion because you always kind of feel it and see things first and then then you actually hear it, it was a pressure plate, IED with like hacksaw blades, and it shot the amount of explosives, had a piece of steel over top of it. So it creates a big shaped charge. And it just sliced right through the aluminum underbelly of this Amphibious Assault Vehicle hitting all the jet fuel, hitting all the 50,000 rounds of ammunition.
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