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bone
  1. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  2. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  4. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  5. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  6. (figuratively) The framework of anything.
  7. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  8. (US, informal) A dollar.
  9. (slang) Dominoes or dice.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “Sometime during the 1800s, Calvin Corey found a large bone, believed to be from either a mastodon or a whale, on his farm in the swamp area across the road from the Potts Site.”
      “He's not interested in being the boss, being famous, or making a pot of money. There's not a competitive bone in his body.”
      “Deep in my bone, I know why this happened.”
boner
  1. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis. [from mid-20th c.]
  2. (literally) One who or that which bones (removes bones).
  3. (dated, baseball, slang) A blunder; a silly mistake. [from early 20th c.]
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I really made a boner that time!”
      “The blast seemed to have a boner for fusion, respected no kind of boundaries.”
      “The predominant commercial outlet for meat from boner ewes is supply to the catering trade.”
bones
boning
bonelessness
  1. The state or quality of being boneless.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The dancer wears a long, soft drapery, which is never lifted to her ankles. Agility and apparent bonelessness are her characteristics.”
bonelet
boniness
  1. the property or degree of being bony
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Somehow his boniness and gauntness extends to his personality.”
      “Long before Twiggy made boniness fashionable, St. Catherine of Siena starved herself to death in the 14th century to prove her faith.”
      “He could recall the exact sensation of his grandmother's arms around him, the boniness of her chest, the sharpness of her arms.”
bone
  1. (slang) Clipping of trombone.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Sometime during the 1800s, Calvin Corey found a large bone, believed to be from either a mastodon or a whale, on his farm in the swamp area across the road from the Potts Site.”
      “He's not interested in being the boss, being famous, or making a pot of money. There's not a competitive bone in his body.”
      “Deep in my bone, I know why this happened.”
bonerism
  1. (slang) The state of having an erection.
bones
boninesses
bonelets
bonings
boners
  1. plural of boner
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He pulled some stupid boners, like trying to fire supporters after he was appointed to the Chair.”
      “At the meatworks all the packers were women and almost all the jobs as boners and slicers, the better paid ones, were occupied by men.”
      “It's analogous to a man being elected to public office, who looks progressive, then pulls a couple of boners.”
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