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"bones" Definition

  1. to rattle the BONES, to play at dice: also called St. Hugh’s BONES.
  2. “he made no BONES of it,” he did not hesitate, _i.e._, undertook and finished the work without difficulty, “found no BONES in the jelly.”—_Ancient, vide Cotgrave._

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Position in the dictionary: 283 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: boniface, bonnet, booby-trap, book, booked, bookmaker’s pocket, books, boom, boom-passenger, boon-companion
Previous words in the dictionary: bone-picker, bone-grubber, bone, bombay ducks;, bolus, bolt, boko, boilers, bogus, bog-trotter

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