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n. - (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; The middle area of the human torso (usually in front).

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  • Picture grown men, dressed in midriff-baring blouses, tight miniskirts, and beads, girating in the streets!
  • MR. KING: You have the same kind of midriff -- and he eats like you -- fast foods.
  • My favorite and well sewn dress pattern has that same kind of midriff, but the point faces north.
  • Everything in the midriff is flexible.
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  • Word of the 2008 Nat. Spelling Bee finals.[pellingbeeshirleys!Field2]
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