belter
/ˈbɛltə
/noun informal
1An exceptional or outstanding example of something: Owen made the goal with a belter of a pass...
- They have notched three since the turn of the year - all of them belters.
- Service spokesman Nigel Metcalfe said: ‘This is an absolute belter.’
- The new season cues off this Thursday and if the commitment of the players and organisers are anywhere near as good as last season then we are in for a belter!
2A loud, forceful singer or song: a real bawdy belter called ‘Ready For Love’ crooners and belters and chanteuses...
- I have done stage, musical stage, not a tenor singer, but a belter, like for musical comedy.
- Such was the case for Montreal maximum R & B belters The Datsons.
- Mind you, I've never heard a Geordie, or for that matter anyone, sing that fast on the real belters such as ‘Get Your Groove’.
Rhymes
- multilateralization
- multilateralize
- multilaterally
- multilayer
- multilayered
- multilayeredness
- multilayering
- multi-length
- multi-lens
- multilevel
- multiline
- multilineal
- multilineality
- multilinear
- multilingual
- multilingualism
- multilingually
- multilinguist
- multiliteral
- Multilith
- multilithed
- multilobar
- multilobate
- multilobed
- multilobular