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ˈbread-basket
1. lit. A basket for holding bread, or in which bread is handed round.
1552Huloet, Bread basket, hamper, or hutch. 1780Wilson in Phil. Trans. LXX. 457 A bread-basket was filled with snow. 1849Cobden Speeches 66 To indemnify themselves by putting their hands into your bread-baskets.
2. slang. The stomach.
1753Foote Englishm. Paris i. (1763) 15 Made the Soupe⁓maigre rumble in his Bread-basket. 1763C. Johnston Reverie I. 135 Hitting him a plump in the bread-basket. 1803Bristed Pedest. Tour I. 46 Our landlady, who was standing..with her mouth wide open, and her hands locked together..resting on her prominent breadbasket. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xxxiii. (D.) ‘What do you think o' that now in a policeman's bread-basket?’
3. slang. A large bomb containing smaller bombs; esp. in Molotov bread-basket.
1940[see Molotov]. 1941Word Study Nov. 1/1 A few radio commentators and newspapermen have applied the phrase Goering, or Goering's, breadbasket to a similar type of bomb dropped sometimes by the Germans in raids over London. 1944J. H. Fullarton Troop Target xxiv. 179 Lone bombers dropping ‘bread-baskets’ which spew scores of tiny bombs over a wide area. |