单词 | t-bone |
释义 | T-bonev. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). transitive. Of a motor vehicle or its driver: to crash head-on into the side of (another vehicle). Frequently in passive.Earliest in to T-bone it: to be involved in a collision in which the front of one vehicle hits the side of the other vehicle. ΚΠ 1968 Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Jrnl. 9 May c5/1 Two oncoming cars T-boned it for a total wipeout. 1975 J. Bishop Trip back Down ii. 96 He braked and I T-boned him into the wall. 1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 304 I'd hate to get T-boned by some dude who wasn't paying attention. 1997 Bloomington (Indiana) Herald-Times 31 July a4/1 The Explorer ‘skidded sideways and was..T-boned by the tractor-trailer rig’. 2015 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) (Nexis) 8 Dec. 3 As the driver of the Holden pulled out to do the u-turn it was T-boned by the other car. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasT-bone T-bone steak n. originally U.S. a beef-steak cut from the sirloin and containing a T-shaped bone; also elliptical as T-bone. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > steak or fillet beef-steak1711 entrecôte1840 filet de bœuf1841 porterhouse steak1842 porterhouse1854 bifteck1861 fillet steak1877 tournedos1877 pope's eye1885 filet mignon1906 minute steak1910 T-bone1916 churrasco1917 Swiss steak1932 strip steak1962 shell steak1968 hanger steak1988 1916 Dial. Notes 4 270 T-steak or T-bone-steak,..so called from the shape of the bone. 1923 N. Anderson Hobo i. iii. 34 These bills of fare..displayed..T-Bone Steak. 1934 E. Newhouse You can't sleep Here xii. 144 When it's a toss-up between buzzards' gizzards and a t-bone.., me for the t-bone. 1959 Times 27 Apr. 7/4 Fillet and T-bone steaks were the order of the hour. 1979 R. Rendell Make Death love Me xi. 98 He got Marty to fetch in three great hunks of T-bone because Joyce said she liked steak. T-bone T-bone n. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American) a collision of two motor vehicles in which the front of one vehicle hits the side of the other; frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1938 Hammond (Indiana) Times 12 June 11/5 The T-bone crash by youthful Jimmy Carraway who rides a car up a ramp, jumps 15 feet and drives head-on into an auto parked diagonally across the race track. 1968 Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Jrnl. 9 May c5/1 (heading) Fourth turn T-bone means midnight oil for dessert. 1996 C. Lewis Dry Fire vii. 118 It's a T-bone accident, the front of one car into the side of another. 2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 27 Dec. a13/4 Mid-intersection ‘T-bones’ declined, but rear-end collisions sharply increased as drivers slammed on the brakes to avoid a ticket. < v.1968 as lemmas |
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