boner

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Sen. Mc Carthy in turn has pulled the boner of questioning, by inference, the President's enmity to Communism.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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