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bones
noun- dice UK, 1400
The term has journeyed from colloquial to standard English and now to slang. - And I’d take some loaded craps down there, some bones, and I would beat the paddy boys out of all their money. They were the only ones who were dumb enough to shoot craps with bones. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 151, 1965
- How come they marked like bones then? — Guy Owen, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, p. 116, 1972
- We now had five yards to spend / so I made the same bet again / as I watched the bones fly from Spoon’s hand. — Lightnin’ Rod, Hustlers Convention, p. 52, 1973
- “The Price is Right,” Duffy trumpeted. “My lucky dice. Harry wants them bones.” — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 229, 1997
- How bout it new kid, you wanna handle my bones, or do you just like to watch. [Screenplay, not in final cut]. — Kill Bill, 2003
- heroin US
- Heroin is called either “bones,” referring to a high level of purity, or “scramble,” meaning a much less pure version, which is much cheaper. — Washington Post, p. B1, 29 July 1984
- crack cocaine UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 281, 2003
- the basic facts of something UK
- [T]old her to go by her mum till I checked her there. Gave her the bones, give her the rest later. — Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bread in Wengen, p. 4, 1999
- an orthopaedist US, 1892
- — Sally Williams, “Strong” Words, p. 135, 1994
- spare ribs US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 198, 1990
▶ make your bones- to establish yourself as a fully fledged member of a crime organisation, usually by carrying out an execution-style murder US
- Only a few weeks before he had made his bones, a double kill of Herm and Sal Perigino[.] — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 8, 1972
- Mr. Bellini wants you to join the Family. He told me to see that you make your bones. I have the guy you need in mind already. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Death Wish, p. 65, 1977
- When he was thirteen he had made his bones on the Gun Hill Road in the Bronx, where he had never been before that afternoon. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 4, 1982
- by extension, to establish yourself as an equal in a group setting US
- She’d made her bones back in the days when there were still a lot of dinosaurs left on the job, guys who wanted women to fail. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 139, 1996
▶ on your bones
destitute or almost so UK, 1924
An image of emaciation.- one winter, in the desperate group and on the bones of my backside — Guardian Weekly, 27 March 1971
▶ the bones
the boyfriend UK- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 166, 2002
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