T-bone
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
T-bone
VerbT-bone (T-bones, present participle T-boning; past and past participle T-boned)
- (transitive, chiefly, US slang, of a motor vehicle) To collide perpendicularly with the side of something, usually another vehicle.
- 1984: R and T, volume 35, page 187 ↗ (CBS Publications)
- 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, page 25 ↗ (Hachette Magazines, Inc.)
- 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, page 77 ↗ ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110202093952/http://greystonebooks.com/home Greystone Books]; ISBN 1553652002, 9781553652007)
- They get to an intersection when suddenly the limo gets T-boned and everything gets thrown around all over the car.
- 1984: R and T, volume 35, page 187 ↗ (CBS Publications)
T-bone (plural T-bones)
- A vehicular collision of this kind.
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