T-bone

See also: t-bone

English

Alternative forms

• t-bone

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tēʹbōn, IPA^(key): /ˈtiːbəʊn/

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Etymology 1

Elliptical form of T-bone steak.

Noun

T-bone (plural T-bones)

1. A T-bone steak.
   • 1984, Stephen King, The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet:

     The barbecue was over. It had been a good one; drinks, charcoaled T-bones, rare, a green salad and Meg's special dressing.

Etymology 2

From the ⊤ shape produced by the vehicles involved in such a collision, with allusion to T-bone ¹.

Verb

T-bone (third-person singular simple present T-bones, present participle T-boning, simple past and past participle T-boned)

1. (transitive, slang, Canada, US, of a motor vehicle) To collide perpendicularly with the side of another vehicle.
   • 1984, R and T, volume 35, CBS Publications, page 187:

     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.

   • 1993, Car and Driver, volume 39, Hachette Magazines, Inc., page 25:

     Its hood had already been accordioned from T-boning somebody else[.]

   • 2007, Paul Myers, It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 77, →ISBN:

     They get to an intersection when suddenly the limo gets T-boned and everything gets thrown around all over the car.

Noun

T-bone (plural T-bones)

1. A vehicular collision of this kind.

Anagrams

• Bonet, bento, bentō