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boneless

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Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eatingWithout bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.

US/bˈoʊnləs/

» McDonald's will discontinue the use of boneless lean beef trimmings in their hamburgers.

Meaning

4 senses

Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
Near-synonyms: boned, deboned
boneless chicken
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being without a bone or bones
(US, humorous)Without pizza crust; without pizza bones.
(UK, figuratively)Lacking strength, courage, or resolve.
(informal)Of a couch, cushionlike due to lacking a hard internal frame.

Examples

1 sentences

McDonald's will discontinue the use of boneless lean beef trimmings in their hamburgers.
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Translations

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By meaning 1

without bones:

Origin

From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germ

From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”).

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