T-bone meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

T-bone

noun

UK /ˈtiːbəʊn/

Etymology Elliptical form of T-bone steak.

A T-bone steak.

The barbecue was over. It had been a good one; drinks, charcoaled T-bones, rare, a green salad and Meg's special dressing.1984, Stephen King, The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet:

verb

Etymology From the ⊤ shape produced by the vehicles involved in such a collision, with allusion to T-bone ¹.

Canada, US, Slang, Of a motor vehicle To collide perpendicularly with the side of another vehicle.

Holmes, who was a lap ahead and in 6th spot, couldn’t avoid T-boning him and in the coming together they were both out.1984, R and T, volume 35, CBS Publications, page 187:
Its hood had already been accordioned from T-boning somebody else[.]1993, Car and Driver, volume 39, Hachette Magazines, Inc., page 25:

1 more example

They get to an intersection when suddenly the limo gets T-boned and everything gets thrown around all over the car.2007, Paul Myers, It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 77, →ISBN:

noun

Etymology From the ⊤ shape produced by the vehicles involved in such a collision, with allusion to T-bone ¹.

A vehicular collision of this kind.

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