Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A thick porterhouse steak taken from the small end of the loin and containing a T-shaped bone.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as tau-bone.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun T-bone steak
  • verb transitive Collide perpendicularly with the side of (chiefly) another vehicle.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Elliptical form of T-bone steak.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the ⊤ shape produced by the vehicles involved in such a collision, with allusion to T-bone ¹.

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Examples

  • He ran a red light—it’s called a T-bone collision, when you hit someone exactly in the side like that.

    Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • He ran a red light—it’s called a T-bone collision, when you hit someone exactly in the side like that.

    Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • He ran a red light—it’s called a T-bone collision, when you hit someone exactly in the side like that.

    Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • Four sinister clowns with wings and tails and skirts held high trotted a T-bone Tango Two-step on an enormous cerulean blue beach ball balanced on the nose of a wine red walrus perched precipitously upon a hubcapped Diamond Star Unicycle of unique design.

    Unday Morning sean m. poole 2011

  • "Survival means focusing on a niche and going for it like a pit bull after a T-bone," he says.

    Spirit Airlines is cheap, and CEO Ben Baldanza's proud of it 2009

  • T-bone is hilarious when he tags a deer .... he starts dancing, enough said.

    What is the best Hunting show? 2009

  • T-bone is hilarious when he tags a deer .... he starts dancing, enough said.

    What is the best Hunting show? 2009

  • Both cook at different rates, so you will have a problem cooking the perfect T-bone.

    The perfect steak for you 2011

  • We tasted it with T-bone steak, and the combination worked very well.

    From Over Here to Over There Will Lyons 2011

  • Really serious Buffett devotees order the T-bone and hash browns, because that is what “Warren” is rumored to eat.

    What Would Warren Do? 2009

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