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Verb
/bōn/,
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bones, plural;
  1. Remove the bones from (meat or fish)
    • - while the gumbo is simmering, bone the cooked chicken
  2. Study (a subject) intensively, often in preparation for something
    • - she boned up on languages she had learned long ago and went back to New Guinea
  3. vulgar. (of a man) Have sexual intercourse with (someone)

Noun
  1. Any of the pieces of hard, whitish tissue making up the skeleton in humans and other vertebrates
    • - his injuries included many broken bones
    • - a shoulder bone
  2. A person's body
    • - he hauled his tired bones upright
  3. A corpse or skeleton
    • - the diggers turned up the bones of a fifteen-year-old girl
    • - bones of prehistoric mammals
  4. The basic or essential framework of something
    • - you need to put some flesh on the bones of your idea
  5. A bone of an animal with meat on it, used as food for people or dogs
    • - stewed in stock made with a ham bone
    • - dogs yelping over a bone
  6. The calcified material of which bones consist
    • - an earring of bone
  7. A substance similar to this such as ivory, dentin, or whalebone

  8. A thing made of, or once made of, such a substance, for example a pair of dice

  9. The whitish color of bone
    • - the sandals she had dyed bone to match the small purse
  10. vulgar. A penis


  1. rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
  2. consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body"
  3. cram: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
  4. remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it"
  5. the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
  6. a shade of white the color of bleached bones
  7. Bones are rigid organs that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They function to move, support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells and store minerals. Bone tissue is a type of dense connective tissue. ...
  8. Bone, also known as Beverly Hills Nightmare, Dial Rat for Terror and Housewife, is a 1972 American film directed by Larry Cohen.
  9. Bone is an independently published comic book series, originally serialized in 55 irregularly-released issues from 1991 to 2004. Bone was drawn and written by Jeff Smith.
  10. In corsetry, a bone is one of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame and gives it rigidity.
  11. Bône is a former French département in Algeria which existed between 1955 and 1962.
  12. Bone is a 48-minute 2006 documentary about the first modern dance co-production between Canada and China, directed and choreographed by Nadine Thouin (Go-On Productions/ formerly Snell Thouin Project) in collaboration with the Beijing Modern Dance Company. ...
  13. (bones) A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs; The act of two fists meeting together in the manner equivalent to a high-five
  14. (Bones) (US) Any military doctor, especially in the Navy. Probably derived from Sawbones.
  15. (Bones) Another name for dice.
  16. (Bones) This is a slang term used in online Craps that refers to the dice.
  17. (Bones) When a player requires a double 1 to reach zero.
  18. (BONES) Unsupported feelings or rigid beliefs; feeling tired or overworked; issues that remain from a dead relationship or previous way of life; having grounds for complaint (a bone to pick) or disputing something (bone of contention); wanting to be appeased (thrown a bone) / Moral strength ( ...
  19. (BONES) a disagreement between friends
  20. (Bones) (2001) as Jimmy Bones
  21. (Bones) 3D term. Another word for Skeleton
  22. (Bones) Also called nose bones; straight bars for nose piercings. Nose bones are shaped like barbells, with the gem or large ball on one end and a smaller ball on the other end. The smaller ball is pushed through the piercing and holds the bone in place.
  23. (Bones) Ancient tool of divination by means of casting
  24. (Bones) Dice that are used in Craps.
  25. (Bones) Domino tiles.  (42 players sometimes refer to themselves as "boneheads.")