Meanings
t-bone1
t-bone2
present singular third person t-bones · participle present t-boning · participle past t-boned · past t-boned
- alternativeAlternative form of T-bone.
T-bone3
plural T-bones · alternative t-bone
- A T-bone steak.
The barbecue was over. It had been a good one; drinks, charcoaled T-bones, rare, a green salad and Meg's special dressing.
1984, Stephen King, The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
T-bone4
present singular third person T-bones · participle present T-boning · participle past T-boned · past T-boned · alternative t-bone
- CanadaUSslangtransitiveTo collide perpendicularly with the side of another vehicle.
Its hood had already been accordioned from T-boning somebody else[.]
1993, Car and Driver, volume 39, Hachette Magazines, Inc., page 252 more examples
Holmes, who was a lap ahead and in 6th spot, couldn’t avoid T-boning him and in the coming together they were both out.
1984, R and T, volume 35, CBS Publications, page 187They get to an intersection when suddenly the limo gets T-boned and everything gets thrown around all over the car.
2007, Paul Myers, It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 77, →ISBN
Origin
T-bone · verb, noun
From the ⊤ shape produced by the vehicles involved in such a collision, with allusion to T-bone ¹.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 側撞 /侧撞, 側撞 /侧撞
- 側撞 /侧撞 (cèzhuàng)Translations
- 側撞 /侧撞 (cèzhuàng)Translations
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