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dogbone

dogbone noun: a bone shaped like an elongated barbell.

dogbone: a bone shaped like an elongated barbell
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Noun

dogbone (plural dogbones)

  1. A bone shaped like an elongated barbell.
  2. (attributive, figuratively, often) Any object with such a shape.
    • a dogbone wrench
    • a dogbone in addition to the lower motor mounts

Forms of dogbone

pluraldogbones
alternative formdog-bone

Origin of dogbone

From dog + bone. Evokes a bone to be given to a dog to chew on, rather the bone of a dog.

Questions about dogbone

What does dogbone mean?
Dogbone means a bone shaped like an elongated barbell.
What part of speech is dogbone?
Dogbone is a noun.
What is the plural of dogbone?
The plural of dogbone is dogbones.

Words near dogbone in the dictionary

  1. dogberryisms
  2. dogbit
  3. dogbits
  4. dogbolt
  5. dogbolts
  6. dogbone
  7. dogbones
  8. dogboning
  9. dogbread
  10. dogbreath
  11. dogbreaths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogbone (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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