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Noun: "a form of body art wherein a piercing is placed in a cauterized puncture of the umbilicus"
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- 2004 — Meg Capri, In Hot Water, iUniverse (2004), →ISBN, page 8:
- I had my waitresses Thea and Gemma, Thea being the more assertive hipster with a belly ring, carmine-streaked hair and tales of adventures and LSD parties I'm not sure she actually attended, but talked a good game; […]
- 2007 — Alyson Noël, Kiss & Blog, St. Martin's Press (2007), →ISBN, page 144:
- […] and Sloane is a hot mermaid — wearing a freshly sprayed coat of Mystic tan, a tiny bikini top covered in seashells, a dangly, gold, starfish belly ring, and this long, turquoise, sparkly, sequined, fishtail skirt, which is dragging behind her, sweeping the floor and gathering trash, like a really glamorous mop.
- 2009 — Barry Lyga, Goth Girl Rising, Houghton Mifflin (2009), →ISBN, page 198:
- She's wearing a thin little black halter that stops just below her boobs so that the world can see her belly ring.
- 2010 — Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice, Bantam Books (2010), →ISBN page 54:
- She stands and stretches again, flashing her tanned midriff and her belly ring as her T-shirt lifts.
- 2012 — Joshilyn Jackson, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty, Grand Central Publishing (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- I'd been supposed to write down three examples of irony for freshman English, and Liza was barefoot in low-rise thrift-store Calvins that showed her silver belly ring, talking about Tyler Baines's mom jeans while he mowed our lawn.
