Usually means: Cockney rhyming slang for phone.
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  1. dog and bone: Collins English Dictionary
  2. dog and bone: Wiktionary
  3. dog and bone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. Dog and bone: Phrase Finder

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  1. dog and bone: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. Dog and Bone: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang, Australian rhyming slang) A telephone.

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telling bone, breakbone, dogs, jawbone, ring, bollocks, bone-on, bong, eau de Cologne, dog's dangly bits, more...

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telling bone, breakbone, dogs, jawbone, ring, bollocks, bone-on, bong, eau de Cologne, dog's dangly bits, more...



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