as in waists
the middle region of the human torso
midriff-baring tops are popular this summer
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Recent Examples of midriffs
The shirts may have short or long sleeves, but cannot be sleeveless or reveal midriffs.
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Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for midriffs
waists
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As the twentieth century progresses, Steele moves from Christian Dior’s New Look—which brought back feminine opulence in the postwar period, with decadent skirts and cinched waists—to the rise of punk as a style that emphasized abjection, discomfort, and aggression.—
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The prototype — designed, like the Miura, by Gandini — first appeared at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, an impossible doorstop of a spaceship with a roofline that barely came up to the waists of the go-go-boot-wearing models who posed alongside it.—
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“Midriffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midriffs. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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