bone up


verb
  1. (adverb; when intr , usually foll by on) informal to study intensively

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How to use bone up in a sentence

  • Then, when she came to Avi-'itšôrinyêne, she threw the bone up, and they all stopped.

    Seven Mohave Myths | A. L. Kroeber
  • But I'll lend you some books, so you can bone up on the theory of flight.

  • One of the committee members tried to pick a bone up, and it fell to pieces in his fingers.

    Caves of Terror | Talbot Mundy
  • Oblique, when the direction of the line of fracture may form any angle with the transverse axis of the bone up to a right angle.

Other Idioms and Phrases with bone up

bone up

Study intensely, as in I'll have to bone up on my Spanish if I'm to pass the language requirement. The verb bone alone was used in this sense from the mid-1800s on, up being added later. [Slang; late 1800s]

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