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dog bones

dog bones is the plural of dog bone.

Meaning of dog bone

Noun

dog bone (plural dog bones)

  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. (slang, possibly African-American Vernacular) 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 bone2003, “PimpandHo.com”, in Married to the Game, performed by Too $hort

Questions about dog bones

What is dog bones the plural of?
Dog bones is the plural of dog bone.

Words near dog bones in the dictionary

  1. dog bone
  2. dog bone spanner
  3. dog bone spanners
  4. dog bone wrench
  5. dog bone wrenches
  6. dog bones
  7. dog bread
  8. dog breeding
  9. dog cart
  10. dog carts
  11. dog chew

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