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▸ noun: (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
▸ noun: A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
▸ noun: A bonefish.
▸ noun: One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
▸ noun: One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
▸ noun: Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
▸ noun: (figurative) The framework of anything.
▸ noun: An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
▸ noun: (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
▸ noun: (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
▸ noun: (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
▸ noun: (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
▸ noun: (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
▸ noun: (figurative) A reward.
▸ adjective: Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
▸ verb: To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
▸ verb: To fertilize with bone.
▸ verb: To put whalebone into.
▸ verb: (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
▸ verb: (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
▸ verb: (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
▸ verb: (usually with "up") To study.
▸ verb: To polish boots to a shiny finish.
▸ verb: To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
▸ adverb: Used before an adjective as an intensifier
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
▸ verb: (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, named after Orion Jost Bone.
▸ noun: (slang) Clipping of trombone. [A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).]
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