Definition of "borscht belt" []

• Informal The predominantly Jewish resort hotels of the Catskill Mountains. Also called borscht circuit. (noun)

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• "I directed a summer stock company when I was a little boy in Red Bank, New Jersey; I also directed some theatre in the borscht belt and was a drummer-comic there."