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• v  study intensively, as before an exam
• v  remove the bones from
• s  having had the bones removed
  a boned (or deboned) fish
• s  having bones as specified
  his lanky long-boned body

• Red-haired Justin Frankel, all big-boned and gangly, is cranking out code in warp mode.
• A big-boned Southern boy couldn't help plumping up on such fare, eventually growing into a teen who, by his own description, was "fat, uncool and hardly popular with the girls.
• Claud Dry and Dale Orcutt, of Athens, Ohio, buddies from the Civil Air Patrol, wanted to sell bare-boned utility car that anybody could afford, unlike that bloody elitist peacenik .

• cram
• grind away
• drum
• bone up
• swot
• get up
• mug up
• swot up
• bone
• debone
• deboned

News & Articles

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• Cherry Wood Grilled Pork Rib at Blue Shutters
  Join Jackie Lewandoski at the Blue Shutters Restaurant in Elmhurst. Executive Chef Guy Ciccone prepares Double Boned Pork Rib Chopp...
  June 22, 2013 - WNEP 16 Pennsylvania
• Teen killed on birthday in 2-car crash
  Police say the truck was traveling westbound on 11th Street when it T-boned the center section of a car traveling northbound on Memorial.  The car's 15-year-old passenger was pronounced dead on the scene.
  June 20, 2013 - KJRH-TV Tulsa
• Dorothy Marinshaw Linn
  Beaufort, S.C. — Dorothy Marinshaw Linn, born Dec. 5, 1927, died Sunday, June 16, 2013. A thin-boned child of the Great Depression who grew to be a tall, dignified, devout and universally loved member of many communities across the country and around the world.
  June 19, 2013 - Valley News

Quotes

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• Michael Cooper in Sacramento Bee
  Anybody underestimating him at first sight soon realised that his appearance was really deceptive. He was one of the most identifiable batsmen in the world, but he was comfortable in his big-boned frame. He was really a good slip fielder, probably... Shane Warne http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Warne&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGBRxK3q6ppvlWWYP5xMK3XrXr8QA Hindu http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/007200812031563.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHaLrfYQnE5YzhvFEpFegP75rd0Xg Dec 3, 2008 11513 15961 boned When Magic first came in the league, and even Larry, they were playing on the perimeter and later incorporated their game in the low post," recalled Cooper, who calls Parker "Silk." "I told her: 'You're not that big-boned a person. You can't...
• Eddie McGuire in Melbourne Herald Sun
  I wasn't given the flick, if that's what you're asking,McGuire said from the set of his quiz show 1 vs 100. "They asked and wanted me to stay. No one has boned anyone here, mate. There's no animosity. There's no rancour, no one's knifed...