cone

Related to cone: Cone biopsy, Cone eye

cone off

To use traffic cones to indicate that a section of a road or some area is closed. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cone" and "off." Police coned off the entire parking lot while the crime scene investigation was under way. We'll need to cone the road off until the repair work is done.
See also: cone, off

conehead

1. A stupid person. Did you hear that guy's ridiculous question? Geez, what a conehead.
2. Someone who is very intelligent, but with very narrow interests. Smart as he is, I doubt he'll be able to help you change your tire—he's a real conehead.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

conehead

1. n. a fool; an oaf. You can be pretty much of a conehead yourself sometimes, you know.
2. n. an intellectual; a pointy-head. They build fences around universities to keep the coneheads in.

cones

n. the breasts; female breasts. She ain’t much in the cones department.
See also: cone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • base off (of) (something else)
  • check off
  • bite off
  • blow off the map
  • blow someone/something off
  • blow off
  • brass off
  • brass someone off
  • brassed off
  • call off
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The growth of automotive industry in Latin America is expected to help in the growth of speaker cone material market up to a certain extent.
Speaker Cone Material Market Growth, Demand and Key Players to 2028
Through the experiment, the researchers saw how the water caused the clay balls to erode and turn into cones.
Scientists Uncover Mystery Behind Cone-Shaped Meteorites
Wayne VanAntwerpen, crusher technology product manager, said, "The new range of TG Spider Bearing cones, being offered in both the large feed secondary and the 'all-rounder" tertiary configuration, will put us in a complete class of our own.
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'I was disappointed with our performance today, I felt we came out and took Rain or Shine for granted,' said Cone Friday at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Cone rues taking Rain or Shine for granted
One of its most notable feats is a product called Adlay Sweet Cone. Adlay, known as a healthy, versatile food ingredient, can be easily ground into flour and used to make bread, pasta, porridge, among others.
Ice cream cone made from adlay
Especially suited to schools the Cone Bake concept offers infinite options.
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A formidable figure in life, Cone leaves a considerable legacy: as a pioneering figure in the development of black theology; as mentor to several generations of black theologians and preachers; and as someone who worked across boundaries to find common cause with other liberation theologians, such as Gustavo Gutierrez.
Cone's memoir recounts journey as pioneer in black theology
Making the perfect McDonald's Ice Cream Cone is not as easy as one might think, there is a technique to it.
Elgin Police Officers Serve Delicious McDonald's Ice Cream Cones
The limitation of this paper is that the causal relationship between the change of cone expression and refractive development remains unclear.
Effect of Altered Retinal Cones/Opsins on Refractive Development under Monochromatic Lights in Guinea Pigs
Caption: Researchers have learned surprising lessons about color vision by using precisely targeted lasers (green line) to stimulate single cone cells (red, green and blue dots) in human retinas.
Color vision strategy defies textbooks: cone cells fill in hues on black-and-white image, study suggests
30 September 2016 - US-based ice-cream cone maker Joy Cone Co has acquired US-based novelty ice cream cone, wafer, and inclusion producer BoDeans Baking Group, the company said.
Joy Cone Acquires BoDeans Baking, Mexican Ice Cream Cone Maker Altesa
"I put Joe in a tough spot," Cone said with a laugh.
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Sources said that San Miguel's big boss Ramon Ang had already made a decision to send Cone to Ginebra after turning the Star Hotshots into a Grand Slam team in 2014.
Tim Cone to coach Kings
The King Cone Americano collection of indulgent American parlour-style ice cream cones, has been entered into the Food Review|Symrise New Product Competition .
Nestle introduces luxury ice cream flavours
Eugene wood products company Zip-O-Log Mills paid $1.55 million to buy the Cone Lumber mill property in Goshen, according to a deed filed with the Lane County Clerk's Office Tuesday, capping negotiations that began as far back as 2011.
Firm buys idled Cone mill