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seat belt

  1. a device consisting of an anchored strap or straps that buckle across the hips to hold a seated passenger safely in place as during a collision
  2. such a device combined with a shoulder harness, as in an automobile
Also written seatbelt seat′·belt′

noun

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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