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debone

American

[dee-bohn] / diˈboʊn /

verb (used with object)

to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone.

Before cooking, the chicken breasts should be deboned with a small, sharp knife.

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deboner

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Etymology

Origin of debone

First recorded in 1940–45; de- + bone

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Absent those images, watching Lois debone, stuff and truss up a turducken would be mouthwatering.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024

The company will increasingly use machines, instead of people, to debone chicken, one of its most labor-intensive jobs and a position with high turnover, said David Bray, group president of Tyson's poultry division.

From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2021

Many are giant, sleek refrigerated assembly lines, staffed mostly by unionized workers who slice, debone and “gut snatch” hog and beef carcasses, under constant oversight of government inspectors.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2020

For those planning to debone the birds themselves, Sammy Herbert said the turkey will be the hardest.

From Fox News ● Nov. 20, 2018

Vegetables, for example, could get contaminated if they’re chopped on a cutting board previously used to, say, debone a chicken.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2017

The server debones and plates the duck in the shape of a turtle shell, leaving the mahogany skin glistening under a patina of fat.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2019

Wu-Bower slices cilantro while Wu debones pork belly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2019

Our tablemates had purchased a litany of fried options, including scotch eggs from the Quail Inn, which also serves bacon-wrapped jalapeño peppers, cheese fritters and “whole, partially deboned quail.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

“A reasonable consumer would not think that BWW’s boneless wings were truly deboned chicken wings, reconstituted into some sort of Franken-wing,” Tharp said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

We tried many plates, but the star of the night was the Cá Chiên Nước Mắm: a whole-fried, deboned bronzino glazed in sweet fish sauce.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

Tip: Your fish should be cleaned and gutted but not deboned.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

Served on skewers, the deboned, pressed and fried wings are glossed with a rich hot sauce and finished with a cube of blue cheese.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023

To eat it properly - deboning it deftly in the mouth - is, in his telling, almost a rite of belonging.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

They have resorted to measures from deboning the bird to giving it a deep-tissue massage to stuffing a whole pineapple inside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Panelo worked at Mutual Fish in the 1980s, one of many cutters filleting and deboning “smelt by the hundreds of pounds,” a fish not many other markets sold at that time.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

Use your chef’s knife for most kitchen work, from chopping onions and garlic to slicing carrots to slicing a roast to deboning a chicken.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

But the plants themselves became hot spots for the virus, as workers stood elbow to elbow chopping, deboning and packing meat and seafood.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022

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