Bone (disambiguation)
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The word bone(s) has many meanings:
- Bone is a hard tissue found in the skeleton of vertebrates animals. It is a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen.
Music
- The bones (instrument) are a musical instrument sometimes made out of actual bone.
- Bone (recording)s are Soviet-era bootleg records, scratched into scavanged sheets of plastic (often from medical x-rays) using a modified turntable and often containing punk rock music.
- Bones (drummer) was the original drummer with punk outfit The Anti-Nowhere League
- Bones (song) is a song by Radiohead on their second album, The Bends.
Television/film
- Bones is the nickname of Star Trek character Dr. Leonard McCoy, or more generally any doctor.
- Bones (TV series) is a Fox network crime drama.
- BONES (studio) is a Japanese animation studio.
- Bones (movie) is a horror film starring Snoop Dogg.
Placenames
- Bône is a city in Algeria. Its ancient name was Hippo Regius.
- Bone state was an Indonesian state, existing from 1350 to 1960 and ruled by an Arumpone of the Bone ruling family.
Slang terminology
- Bones is another term for the games of dominos or dice.
- "Bones" is a slang nickname for the US Navy's Jolly Rogers squadron.
- Bone is the nickname of the US Air Force's B-1B Lancer strategic bomber.
- It can also be slang for a U.S. one hundred-dollar bill.
- To engage in penetrative intercourse
- Bone is a catchphrase of Taylor ("Goose") Luck in the BC universe
- In the Cosa Nostra and other gangs, "made his bones" means to become a made man
- Bone is a term used to refer to a lighter of "Bone-White" color. These types of lighters are often considered lucky in 420 (cannabis culture).
Other
- Bone Network is the name of a proprietary chat network.
- BeOS Networking Environment (BONE), a networking environment for the BeOS.
- Bones is a bot from the game Quake III Arena.
- A bone (corsetry) is a rigid vertical rib that gives a corset its shape and rigidity. Whalebone was originally used for corset boning because of its mild elasticity.
- Bone (comics) is also the name of a series of comic books/graphic novels by Jeff Smith, and of the computer adventure games based on them produced by Telltale Games.
- Napier's bones, an abacus invented by John Napier
- Ricky Bones is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
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