The word "boner" is sometimes used as slang for an embarrassing mistake or an unfortunate incident.
It is not generally considered appropriate for formal written English. Example: Dave made a huge boner by forgetting to submit the report on time.
That's good news for Democrats who worry that Citizens United will work to the GOP's permanent advantage, but bad news for the well-rehearsed progressive narrative about the balefully transformative effects of Citizens United.By the way, Michael Kinsley is right that Citizens United was not a jurisprudential boner.
"Now will '50 Shades' give me a big 'ol boner the same way 'The Fall' did?" she tweeted.
An example of an illegal operation or "lucky boner" is: Among the many relationships of numbers that have fascinated man are those that suggest (or were derived from) the arrangement of points representing numbers into series of geometrical figures.
You really pulled a boner in your recent article on "Swords," in which you stated that "it has, of course, been years and years since….
The blast seemed to have a boner for fusion, respected no kind of boundaries.
than the standard semi-flaccid routney (as erectographers call it), or than the ordinary, garden-variety boner.
They deftly discussed the double standards of sexism (Palin "upset" to be thought of as sexy, Clinton upset that she was considered a harpy, a shrew and a boner-shrinker) and made it obvious that it didn't matter if any ol' woman made it to the White House, but rather the right woman.
A shad-boner can earn an easy $35 a day during the brief shad season in spring, going from restaurant to restaurant and preparing a day's supply Joseph Patrick White, proprietor of Paddy's Clam House, on West 34th Street, possesses a roll of movie film which shows the boning of a shad.
The performer was an itinerant shad-boner named Pomeranz.
Mr. White then called in his current shad-boner, a man named Frank Kluchnac, who was taught shad-boning by Pomeranz.
A skilled shad-boner can deprive a shad of its skeleton in five minutes, for this he usually gets 35 cents.
