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bone

/bəʉn/

noun

Meaning

  • A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

  • Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

  • A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

  • A bonefish

  • One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

  • One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

  • Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

  • The framework of anything.

  • An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

  • A dollar.

  • The wishbone formation.

  • An erect penis; a boner.

  • (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

Synonyms

rib,
stay

verb

Meaning

  • To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

  • To fertilize with bone.

  • To put whalebone into.

    "to bone stays"

  • To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

    "boning rod"

  • (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

  • (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

  • (usually with "up") To study.

    "bone up"

  • To polish boots to a shiny finish.

Synonyms

debone,
unbone,
bonk,
bury the bone,
fuck,
screw,
shag

adjective

Meaning

  • Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.