Definitions
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- adjective Describing something that has had its bones removed.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
debone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having had the bones removed
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Examples
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Or the plump and moist quail which the menu calls deboned, but isn't quite.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JOANNE KATES 2011
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A fair rule of thumb is that you will get about 40% of the live weight of a deer if carefully deboned so as not to have excessive waste.
How much meat do you get out of a deer when you debone it? Let's say a big whitetail doe. 2009
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Then being deboned, mechanically separated, and reformed into a tasty sauce-slathered McPatty.
The McRib Officially McReturns Colin Sterling 2010
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Though he felt light-headed from the morning and afternoon group-meditation sessions and the trancing suck of the desert sun, he pushed himself up and tottered back to the yurt on legs that might as well have been deboned for all the stability they offered him, this perfect gift of the dragonfly inside him and no way to get it out.
The Silence 2010
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Then being deboned, mechanically separated, and reformed into a tasty sauce-slathered McPatty.
The McRib Officially McReturns The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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A fair rule of thumb is that you will get about 40% of the live weight of a deer if carefully deboned so as not to have excessive waste.
How much meat do you get out of a deer when you debone it? Let's say a big whitetail doe. 2009
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Soak deboned rabbit meat in a salt water brine for 3 days.
BBQ rabbit 2009
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Though he felt light-headed from the morning and afternoon group-meditation sessions and the trancing suck of the desert sun, he pushed himself up and tottered back to the yurt on legs that might as well have been deboned for all the stability they offered him, this perfect gift of the dragonfly inside him and no way to get it out.
The Silence 2010
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"I can have a five-footer skinned, deboned and processed in about 15 minutes," she says.
Alligator Farmers Snap Back At Florida's Plan to Sever Funding Arian Campo-Flores 2011
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Then being deboned, mechanically separated, and reformed into a tasty sauce-slathered McPatty.
The McRib Officially McReturns Colin Sterling 2010
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