boned
adjUK /bəʊnd/ · US /boʊnd/
7 senses
1
In compounds Having a (specific type of) bone.
- hollow-boned; thick-boned
- Most of the words came straight through the girls’ neat little well-powdered noses, which didn’t flinch at all. Noses are boned, you know, at least half-way down, so they don’t show the results of ill-treatment very soon.1925 January 20, Nettie Palmer, “Buttahflays and Frogs”, in The Australian Woman’s Mirror, volume 1, number 9, Sydney, N.S.W.: […] Henry Kenneth Prior, […] for The Bulletin Newspaper Co., Ltd., […], page 16, column 3:
3
Slang Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
- O cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee.2002, Ken Keeler, “Godfellas”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 20, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
4
Slang Broken.
5
Of meat or fish Having had the bones removed before cooking.
6
Fitted with bones.
Of a garment such as a corset or basque
7
Hobbies, Lifestyle, Snowboarding, Sports Having the legs straightened during a trick.
- Bro, for sure you were all boned out, but I wasn't rolling.2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:
- Derived terms
- bare-boned, big-boned, preboned, rawboned, raw-boned, twitter-boned
- Related terms
- boner