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bone
1. verb, vulgar slang To have sexual intercourse. I can't believe you two boned last night! He's not a long-term relationship-type of guy. He clearly just wants to bone you. A: "I think those two boned last night after the party." B: "Well, they did spend the whole night flirting!"
2. noun, vulgar slang The penis. You need to keep your bone in your pants and stop sleeping with random girls! Hey, I don't want to see your bone—pull up your pants! They said there's a guy going around flashing his bone to people in Central Park.
3. noun, vulgar slang An erection. I got a bone while daydreaming in math class today—it was so embarrassing! Sarah became quite embarrassed when she noticed that her date had a bone in the middle of the movie. Wow, I only caught a glimpse of my wife in that skimpy outfit and I already have a bone!
4. The trombone. I used to play the bone in the marching band in high school. I knew that Ed played he trumpet, but I had no idea he was learning to play the bone! Who is playing the bone at this ungodly hour? No civilian wants to be awakened by a brass instrument!
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bone
verbSee boner
bone
1. n. a trombone. (see also bones.) She plays the bone like nobody’s business.
2. Go to boner.
bones
1. n. dice. (See additional forms at bone.) Toss me the bones and get out your checkbooks.
2. n. a nickname for a ship’s physician. (From sawbones. Also the nickname of the doctor on the starship Enterprise of Star Trek fame.) This fat bones actually wanted me to lose weight.
3. n. a nickname for a skinny person. (Also a term of address.) Ask bones there what he wants to drink.
4. n. dollars; money; cash. The tickets only cost a few bones, but the play was lousy and I want my money back.
See also: bone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- (all) skin and bone(s)
- (as) dry as a bone
- a bag of bones
- a bone in your leg
- a bone of contention
- a bone to pick
- a dog that'll bring a bone will carry a bone
- bad to the bone
- bag of bones
- bare bones
- bare-bones
- be (all) skin and bone(s)
- be all bones
- be as dry as a bone
- be bone dry
- be bone idle
- be chilled to the bone
- be close to the bone
- be like a dog with a bone
- be skin and bone
- be soaked to the bone
- big-boned
- bone
- bone dry
- bone factory
- bone hard
- bone idle
- bone in (one's) leg
- bone in her/its/the teeth
- bone in the throat
- bone of contention
- bone of contention, the
- bone orchard
- bone out
- bone to pick
- bone to pick, have a
- bone up
- bone up (on something)
- bone-crunching
- bone-deep
- bonehead
- boneheaded
- bone-idle
- bone-rattling
- bones
- bone-shaking
- boneyard
- bred in the bone
- breed in the bone
- chew the meat and spit out the bones
- chill (one) to the bone
- chill (one) to the marrow
- chill somebody to the bone/marrow
- chilled to the bone
- close to the bone
- close to/near the bone
- crazy bone
- cut something to the bone
- cut to the bone
- cut to the quick
- cut, pare, etc. something to the bone
- doesn't have a (certain kind of) bone in (one's) body
- dog and bone
- dry as a bone
- dry as dust
- eat the meat and spit out the bones
- feel (something) in (one's) bones
- feel chilled to the bone
- feel in bones
- feel in one's bones
- feel in your bones
- feel it in (one's) bones
- feel it in one's bones, to
- feel something in your bones
- flesh out
- funny bone
- get chilled to the bone
- get t-boned
- hard words break no bones
- have a bone on
- have a bone to pick
- have a bone to pick (with one)
- have a bone to pick with somebody
- have a bone to pick with someone
- have a bone to pick, to
- have good bones
- head bone
- in (one's) bones
- in bones
- in your bones
- jump (one's) bones
- jump bones
- jump someone's bones
- know (something) in (one's) bones
- knuckle bones
- knucklebones
- laid to the bone
- lazy-bones
- leave (something) bone dry
- make (one's) bones
- make dry bones live
- make no bones about
- make no bones about (something)
- make no bones about it
- make no bones about it, to
- make no bones about something
- make no bones about something/about doing something
- make old bones
- meat on (one's) bones
- meat on the bone
- no bones about it
- not a bone in your body
- not have a (kind of) bone in (one's) body
- not have a (some kind of) bone in (one's) body
- not have a...bone in your body
- nothing but skin and bone(s)
- nothing but skin and bones and skin and bones
- pare (something) to the bone
- pick a bone (with someone), to
- pick a bone with (someone)
- pick the bones out of (something)
- point the bone at
- point the bone at (someone or something)
- prayer bones
- put (some) meat on (one's) bones
- put flesh on (the bones of) (something)
- put flesh on something
- rag-and-bone man
- rattle-bones
- roll the bones
- sawbones
- silked to the bone
- skin and bone
- skin and bones
- skin and bones, (nothing but)
- small-boned
- soak (someone) to the bone
- soaked to the bone
- sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
- sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me
- t-bone
- t-bone crash
- the bare bones
- the nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat
- throw (one) a bone
- throw a bone
- throw a bone to (someone)
- Throw me a bone!
- throw somebody a bone
- tickle (one's) funny bone
- to (one's) bones
- to (one's) bootstraps
- to (one's) cost
- to the bone
- to the bone(s)
- to your bones
- toss (someone) a bone
- toss a bone to (someone)
- wear (one's) fingers to the bone
- while two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third one runs away with it
- while two dogs are fighting for bone, a third one runs away with it
- with every bone in (one's) body
- work (one's) fingers to the bone
- work (oneself) to the bone
- work fingers to the bone
- work one's fingers to the bone, to
- work your fingers to the bone