Usually means: Very thin or emaciated person.
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  1. bag of bones: Merriam-Webster
  2. bag of bones: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. bag of bones: Wiktionary
  4. bag of bones: Dictionary.com
  5. Bag of Bones (album), Bag of Bones (film), Bag of Bones (miniseries), Bag of Bones, Bag of bones: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Bag of Bones: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. bag of bones: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Bag of Bones: Encyclopedia

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  1. Bag of Bones: Medical dictionary

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  1. bag of bones: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bag of bones, bag of bones: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bag of bones: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. bag of bones: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bag of bones)

noun:  (idiomatic) A skinny, malnourished person or animal.

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