Meaning & use
Bones
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The hard, rigid structures that make up the skeleton of a vertebrate animal; also used informally for dice, dollars, or a person's physical build.
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The archaeologists carefully brushed dirt away from the ancient bones.
It'll cost you a few hundred bones to fix that engine.
A note on using this word
Beyond anatomy, 'bones' has long served as slang for dice (from their traditional bone or ivory material) and, more recently, for dollars in American slang.
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2. noun
(informal) Dollars; money.
He dropped fifty bones on concert tickets.
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