0 past simple and past participle of belt
1 (especially of a vehicle) to travel with great speed:
2 to hit someone or something hard, especially with violence:
He belted him in the face.
3 to tie something with a belt:
A very small child was belted in the rear of a car that was involved in an accident.
The argument is that if the legislation is introduced, it will put at risk anybody with three children, one of whom cannot be belted.
But the front of her car was totally crushed, as she would have been had she been belted in.
I did not mention anything about the pilot not being belted up.
I have noticed many boys, in particular, who have been belted frequently in schools becoming worse and more anti-social instead of better.
On some types of runs, on uncrowded wide roads at a leisurely pace, the need to be belted in is non-existent.
Some children who are belted in might feel uncomfortable.
One might just as well argue that the pilot of a plane would feel rather hurt if all the passengers on his plane belted up.
