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Bones

proper nounproper nounnouncommon in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of Boneplural of Bone

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

noun

  1. 1

    A surgeon.

    And then the door swung wide upon its hinges, and Bones - our surgeon - Dr. Sawin, outside the service - broke into the room with his favorite greeting: “Hello, inside! Never mind the guard!

Etymology

From sawbones.

Forms

plural
Boneses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).