Crossword clues for t-bone
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of steak, 1916, so called from the T-shaped bone that runs through it. The verb meaning "to strike (another car, bus, etc.) from the side" is by 1970, from adjectival use in reference to crashes, attested from 1952, from the position of the two vehicles at impact.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. T-bone steak Etymology 2
vb. (context transitive chiefly US slang of a car or similar vehicle English) collide perpendicularly with the side of (context chiefly English) another vehicle.
Wikipedia
T-Bone, short for T-bone steak, can refer to:
Rene Francisco Sotomayor, better known by the stage name T-Bone, is a conscious/inspirational Christian rapper. His father is Nicaraguan and his mother is Salvadoran. His name came from being called 'Bones' as a youngster because he was very skinny. The 'T' was "added to give the name a little slang edge."
Usage examples of "t-bone".
Caribou T-bone steak, a quarter of blueberry pie and some excellent California burgundy inside him, Brady watched his befurred wife and daughter go out through the main entrance and sighed with satisfaction at the feeling of physical well-being that enveloped him.
If somebody absolutely pushed T-Bone up against the wall, when the only option was kill or be killed, he’.
Raven, moving with long confident strides, catches up with T-Bone and swings one hand up into T.
Raven, moving with long confident strides, catches up with T-Bone and swings one hand up into T-Bone's body.
Lucy can't help but think of Rocco's estranged father, Pete Marino, as she eyes a gnawed T-bone, the shredded skin of a baked potato, a plate with one pat of butter left (melted), an empty bread basket and a glass goblet filled with wilted lettuce, cocktail sauce, wedges of lemon and shrimp tails.
We crawled through Crawford, inadvertently ran a four-way stop that I thought was two-way, and almost got T-boned by a Chevy pickup.
But what could be so important about him that a man as powerful and unscrupulous as T-Bone Pickens was desperate to get rid of him?
Allowing Adam to work unsupervised at night, however, meant that he would lift my reach-in doors off the hinges to help himself to midnight snacks of T-bone steaks, white truffle risotto and tomato salad-washed down, no doubt, with a bottle of pilfered Dom Perignon now and again.
Gil Rossignol was his namea name to set you thinking of the French quarter of New Orleans and showboats, of cabaret and gamblers with concealed derringersexcept that Rossignol's raw T-bone bulk contradicted this image flatly.
Ignoring Nikki's scowl of rage, he accepted a white roll from the waiter, and spreading it thickly with butter, ordered Spaghetti Carbonara as a first course followed by a T-bone and chips.
Schmidt looked down at the slab of tofu formed in the shape of a T-bone steak.
I told Tiny what was working, wrapped up two one-pound T-bones to take home with me, and left the cafe with a wave at the boss.