boner
Example Sentences
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Sen. Mc Carthy in turn has pulled the boner of questioning, by inference, the President's enmity to Communism.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ezra," said he, "you pulled a boner and the thing to do is admit it."
From Time Magazine Archive
In August 1939, Pundit Kaltenborn confesses, he made a prize boner.
From Time Magazine Archive
New to politics, new to public affairs, he made many a boner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sixteen years went by before the Lewis brothers, one a butcher, the other a beef boner, became the first black hires in the Yard.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
