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boner - 5 dictionary results

bon⋅er

1[boh-ner]
–noun
a person or thing that bones.

Origin:
1895–1900; bone1 + -er 1

bon⋅er

2[boh-ner]
–noun
a foolish and obvious blunder; stupid mistake.

Origin:
1910–15, Americanism; bone(head) + -er 1
bon·er 1   (bō'nər)   
n.   Informal
A blunder or an error.

[bone(head) + -er1.]
bon·er 2   (bō'nər)   
n.   Vulgar Slang
An erection of the penis.

boner 
"blunder," 1912, baseball slang, probably from bonehead "stupid person" (1908). Meaning "erect penis" is 1950s, from earlier bone-on (1940s), probably a variation (with connection notion of "hardness") of hard-on (1893).
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