boner

From bone +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.nə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.nɚ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)

boner (plural boners)

1. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis. [from mid-20th c.]
   • 1973, Sol Gordon, Facts about sex for today's youth‎, →ISBN, page 20:

     Boys often refer to their enlarged penis as an "erection," a "boner," or a "hard on."

   Why do guys get boners when they wake up in the morning?

   1. (vulgar, slang, figurative) An often perverse sense of enjoyment from or predilection towards something.

      Why do politicians have such a boner for meaningless memorials?

2. One who or that which removes bones.
3. (dated slang, especially baseball) A blunder; a silly mistake. [from early 20th c.]

   He really pulled a boner that time!

4. (humorous) A trombonist

• (slang, erect penis): erection, hard-on, stiffy

  see also Thesaurus:erect penis

• (one that removes bones): deboner
• (mistake): blooper, blunder

  See also Thesaurus:error

• boned

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• Breon, Ebron, borne

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋˀɐ]

boner c

1. indefinite plural of bon

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IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oːnɐ]

boner

1. present tense of bone

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IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋɐ]

boner

1. present tense of bone