Meanings
plural bonebreakers
- One who or that which breaks bones.
Now there's a bonebreaker of a fall, Georgie Jay would say...
2013, Lucy Ashford, The Major and the Pickpocket, page 531 more example
Only someone of Ronnie's mentality would have chanced his arm and scammed a bonebreaker like Fingers.
2014, David Barry, Tales from Soho
Origin
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bonebreaker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bonebreaker
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