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'bone

'bone is the contraction of trombone.

Meaning of trombone

Noun

trombone (plural trombones or tromboni)

  1. A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
    • Jim plays the trombone very well.
  2. The common European bittern.
  3. A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
    • The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument.1983, Alan Wurtzel, Television Production, page 131

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Forms of 'bone

plural'bones

Questions about 'bone

What is 'bone the contraction of?
'bone is the contraction of trombone.

Words near 'bone in the dictionary

  1. 'aven't
  2. 'avin'
  3. 'bacco
  4. 'Bama
  5. 'Bodge
  6. 'bone
  7. 'bones
  8. 'bortion
  9. 'bortions
  10. 'bot
  11. 'bots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 'bone (page history and authors); trombone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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