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dog bone en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. a bone that is given to a dog to chew on and play with, similar to a dog biscuit. They can be real bones, or they can be made of other materials like plastic or leather
  2. a 2- or 3-dimensional compound shape, evocative of a dog biscuit or dog-bone toy with a central shaft and two lobes (analogous to femoral condyles) at each end
    • "The First Nanochips", Scientific American, April 2004, p. 81. If ... the pattern on the mask were designed to look more like a dog bone, the result would better approximate a rectangle with sharp corners.
  3. (qualifier:possibly African-American Vernacular, slang) the penis
    • Me and D-Money keep smokin' that bomb Need a little game, you better log on Girls get naked Lickin' on my dog bone 2003, “PimpandHo.com”, in Married to the Game, performed by Too $hort:

Forms

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dog bones Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

toss them a bone · throw him a bone

Translations (4)

fi koiranluu (bone that is given to a dog) · ko 개뼈다귀 (bone that is given to a dog) · sv hundben (bone that is given to a dog) · ko 개뼈 (bone that is given to a dog)