Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick porterhouse steak taken from the small end of the loin and containing a T-shaped bone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tau-bone .
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- noun
T-bone steak - verb transitive
Collide perpendicularly with the side of (chiefly) anothervehicle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He ran a red light—it’s called a T-bone collision, when you hit someone exactly in the side like that.
Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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He ran a red light—it’s called a T-bone collision, when you hit someone exactly in the side like that.
Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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He ran a red light—it’s called a T-bone collision, when you hit someone exactly in the side like that.
Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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Four sinister clowns with wings and tails and skirts held high trotted a T-bone Tango Two-step on an enormous cerulean blue beach ball balanced on the nose of a wine red walrus perched precipitously upon a hubcapped Diamond Star Unicycle of unique design.
Unday Morning sean m. poole 2011
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"Survival means focusing on a niche and going for it like a pit bull after a T-bone," he says.
Spirit Airlines is cheap, and CEO Ben Baldanza's proud of it 2009
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T-bone is hilarious when he tags a deer .... he starts dancing, enough said.
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T-bone is hilarious when he tags a deer .... he starts dancing, enough said.
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Both cook at different rates, so you will have a problem cooking the perfect T-bone.
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We tasted it with T-bone steak, and the combination worked very well.
From Over Here to Over There Will Lyons 2011
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Really serious Buffett devotees order the T-bone and hash browns, because that is what “Warren” is rumored to eat.
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