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bone-dry

[ bohn-drahy ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

bone-dry

informal.
1. completely dry
  a bone-dry well
2. ( postpositive )
  the well was bone dry

First recorded in 1815–25

This cider is bone dry and has a really great olive & briny quality that makes it a killer food pairing cider.

By day's end, you were bone dry, sunburnt and cut all over from corn burn.

Also in his favor, the congressman has a dark, bone-dry sense of humor that plays well with media types.

What could have propelled a stale, bone-dry story to the top of the Internet's importance arbiter?

The lights of small restaurants glimmered faintly on the bone-dry pavement.

There was plenty of water in the well and the electric pump was functioning but the storage tank was bone dry.

Batteries using wooden separators cannot be shipped "bone-dry," since wooden separators must be kept moist.

A Willard Threaded Rubber insulated battery is shipped and carried in stock "bone-dry."

His mouth and throat went bone dry and it was desperately hard to breath.

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