boner

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"Ezra," said he, "you pulled a boner and the thing to do is admit it."

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New to politics, new to public affairs, he made many a boner.

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In August 1939, Pundit Kaltenborn confesses, he made a prize boner.

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That seemed just as pleasing to Congress, just as appeasing to business, as correcting a bad boner in the Social Security Act.

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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