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bone

1. n. a trombone. (see also bones.) She plays the bone like nobody’s business.

2. Go to boner.

bone

verb

See boner

See:

• a bag of bones
• a bone of contention
• a bone to pick
• a bone to pick with
• all skin and bones
• bad to the bone
• bag of bones
• bare bones
• bare-bones
• be as dry as a bone
• be bone dry
• be bone idle
• be chilled to the bone
• be close to the bone
• be cut 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 of contention
• bone out
• bone shaking
• bone to pick
• bone to pick, have a
• bone up
• bone-crunching
• bone-deep
• bone-idle
• boner
• bones
• bred in the bone
• chill (one) to the bone
• chill to the bone
• chilled to the bone
• close to the bone
• crazy bone
• cut to the bone
• cut to the quick
• dry as dust
• feel in bones
• feel in one's bones
• feel it in (one's) bones
• flesh out
• funny bone
• Hard words break no bones
• have a bone on
• have a bone to pick
• have a bone to pick with
• he doesn't have a [jealous, mean, unkind etc.] bone in his body
• I feel it in my bones
• in bones
• jump bones
• jump someone’s bones
• knuckle bones
• laid to the bone
• lazy-bones
• make (one's) bones
• make no bones about
• Make no bones about it
• not have a bone in body
• nothing but skin and bones and skin and bones
• pick a bone with (someone)
• roll the bones
• silked to the bone
• skin and bones
• soak (someone) to the bone
• soaked to the bone
• Sticks and stones may break my bones
• sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• the bare bones
• the nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat
• throw a bone
• throw a bone to (someone)
• Throw me a bone!
• tickle (someone's) funny bone
• to the bone
• toss (someone) a bone
• toss a bone to (someone)
• wear fingers to the bone
• work fingers to the bone
• work one's fingers to the bone