T-bone
See also: t-bone
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tēʹbōn, IPA(key): /ˈtiːbəʊn/
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Etymology 1
editElliptical form of T-bone steak.
Noun
edit- A T-bone steak.
- 1984, Stephen King, The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet:
- The barbecue was over. It had been a good one; drinks, charcoaled T-bones, rare, a green salad and Meg's special dressing.
Etymology 2
editFrom the ⊤ shape produced by the vehicles involved in such a collision, with allusion to T-bone ¹.
Verb
editT-bone (third-person singular simple present T-bones, present participle T-boning, simple past and past participle T-boned)
- (transitive, slang, Canada, US, of a motor vehicle) To collide perpendicularly with the side of another vehicle.
- 1984, R and T, volume 35, CBS Publications, page 187:
- 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.
- 1993, Car and Driver, volume 39, Hachette Magazines, Inc., page 25:
- Its hood had already been accordioned from T-boning somebody else[.]
- 2007, Paul Myers, It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 77, →ISBN:
- They get to an intersection when suddenly the limo gets T-boned and everything gets thrown around all over the car.
Noun
edit- A vehicular collision of this kind.
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