boned

boned

boned (not comparable)

(in combination) Having a (specific type of) bone.
hollow-boned; thick-boned
- 1925 January 20, Nettie Palmer, “Buttahflays and Frogs”, in The Australian Woman’s Mirror, volume 1, number 9, Sydney, N.S.W.: […] Henry Kenneth Prior, […] for The Bulletin Newspaper Co., Ltd., […], page 16, column 3:
  Most of the words came straight through the girls’ neat little well-powdered noses, which didn’t flinch at all. Noses are boned, you know, at least half-way down, so they don’t show the results of ill-treatment very soon.
(art) Of computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.
(slang) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
Synonyms: screwed, fucked, up shit's creek
- 2002, Ken Keeler, “Godfellas”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 20, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
  O cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee.
(slang) Broken.
(of meat or fish) Having had the bones removed before cooking.
Synonyms: deboned; boneless (usually synonymous)

Antonym: unboned

Hyponym: preboned

Coordinate terms: skinned, skinless
(of a garment such as a corset or basque) Fitted with bones.
(snowboarding) Having the legs straightened during a trick.
- 2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:
  Bro, for sure you were all boned out, but I wasn't rolling.

having a (specific type of) bone

beset with difficult or impossible situation

meat or fish with bones removed

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