Crossword clues for boner
boner
- Foolish mistake
- Embarrassing error
- The Replacements "Gary's Got a ___"
- Pull a ____
- Moronic mistake
- It's pulled occasionally
- Huge mistake
- Big blunder
- Ugly mistake
- Stupid blunder
- Senseless blunder
- Replacements "Gary's Got a ___"
- Relative of fluff
- Reason to say "Duh!"
- Piece of morningwood
- Onstage boo-boo
- Obvious slip
- Obvious mistake
- Mike's unfortunately-nicknamed friend on "Growing Pains"
- Mike's friend on "Growing Pains"
- Major mistake
- Knuckleheaded blunder
- Idiotic mistake
- Humongous mistake
- Huge goof
- Huge flub-up
- Glaring error
- Foolish error
- Dumb move
- Die Antwoord "Raging Zef ___"
- Classroom slip
- Blockheaded blunder
- Big-time mistake
- Cause for hitting the forehead
- Foul-up
- Damfool thing
- Fool mistake
- A bungler might pull one
- Big boo-boo
- Screw-up
- Cause for a head-slap?
- Boo-boo
- Faux pas
- Silly mistake
- Blockheaded move
- Screwup
- Gaffe
- Big goof
- Stupid mistake
- An embarrassing mistake
- Goofy action
- Fluff
- Dumb mistake
- Chef, at times
- Mistake
- Howler
- Malapropism, to a slangster
- Blooper
- Miscubobble
- Blunder
- Miscuebobble
- Dimwit move
- Slip-up
- Embarrassing mistake
- Big mistake
- Silly blunder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
boner \boner\ n.
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an embarrassing mistake.
Syn: blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, flub, botch, boo-boo, misdoing.
one who bones food.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"blunder," 1912, baseball slang, probably from bonehead. Meaning "erect penis" is 1950s, from earlier bone-on (1940s), probably a variation (with connecting notion of "hardness") of hard-on (1893).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literally English) One who or that which bones (removes bones). 2 (context dated baseball slang English) A blunder; a silly mistake. (from early 20th c.) 3 (context slang English) An erect penis. (from mid-20th c.)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Boner may refer to:'''
- A boning knife, very narrow knife for removing bones from meat, poultry or fish
- A United States Department of Agriculture carcass grade for slaughter cattle
- Richard "Boner" Stabone, a recurring character on the TV series Growing Pains
- Boner Records, a California-based independent label
- Boner's Ark, a comic strip about a sailing ship filled with animals
- The Boner Awards feature on Radio From Hell, a morning radio show on Salt Lake City-based X96
- Bill Boner, former mayor of Nashville
- John Henry Boner, a North Carolina poet
Boner is also a slang term for:
- An erection
- A Zamboni Company ice resurfacing vehicle operator
- A trombone
- A trombonist or trombone
- A blooper, a small mistake having an amusing effect
- A blunder or howler, a spectacularly bad or embarrassing mistake (e.g. Merkle's Boner)
Usage examples of "boner".
Jesus, what was it about this woman, who knew nothing about enjoying the afterglow, that caused him to have a boner ninety-five percent of the time he was in her company?
Alan happened to know that at this very spot, Boner Chemical was dumping dioxins into the sewers.
Buffalo loves to see scruffy environmentalists irritate Boner Chemical.
The mincers, boners, pluckers, spit-boys and peelers fell on the leftovers like mice, then scattered again under tables, to the hearths, out of the way of the bakers and washers and the disgusted plucker who had to do pots, and who left trails of ash and grease behind her as she hauled dirty pots across the kitchen.
Paul Geissler to touch a penny of it, not after the boner he pulled shooting you.
That's more boners than a good projectionist will pull in a lifetime, but the punk wasn't through yet.
Gardner became convinced he could devise plots just as ingenuous the Hazeltine stories, but truer to courtroom procedure and with significantly fewer legal boners.
All typos and atrocious factual boners have now (hopefully) been fixed, for one thing.
She didn’t know about that, but it had given Lowell these total brickbat boners that just didn’t want to go away.
Some of the girls around the bank call him the Boner, if you know what I mean.
The two-part TV special was directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chain-Saw Massacre fame, and outside of a few boners - such as making my vampire Barlow look exactly like the cadaverously inhuman night stalker in the famous German silent film Nosferatu-he did a pretty good job.
He blushed and looked around to see if anyone saw his inadvertent boner, getting his revenge by reaching behind my neck and untying my halter bikini top, making my breasts spill out of my suit.