T-bone

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Etymology 1

Elliptical form of T-bone steak.

Noun

T-bone (plural T-bones)

  1. A T-bone steak.
    • 1984, Stephen King, The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet:
      The barbecue was over. It had been a good one; drinks, charcoaled T-bones, rare, a green salad and Meg's special dressing.

Etymology 2

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

Verb

T-bone (third-person singular simple present T-bones, present participle T-boning, simple past and past participle T-boned)

  1. (transitive, slang, Canada, US, of a motor vehicle) To collide perpendicularly with the side of another vehicle.
    • 1984, R and T, volume 35, CBS Publications, page 187:
      Holmes, who was a lap ahead and in 6th spot, couldn’t avoid T-boning him and in the coming together they were both out.
    • 1993, Car and Driver, volume 39, Hachette Magazines, Inc., page 25:
      Its hood had already been accordioned from T-boning somebody else[.]
    • 2007, Paul Myers, It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 77, →ISBN:
      They get to an intersection when suddenly the limo gets T-boned and everything gets thrown around all over the car.

Noun

T-bone (plural T-bones)

  1. A vehicular collision of this kind.

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