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Boone

[ boon ]

noun

  1. Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.
  2. Pat, born 1934, U.S. singer.
  3. a city in central Iowa.
  4. a town in NW North Carolina.


Boone

/ buːn /

noun

  1. BooneDaniel17341820MAmericanMISC: pioneerTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorerTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: guide Daniel . 1734–1820, American pioneer, explorer, and guide, esp in Kentucky
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Boone, 73, told The Washington Post on Wednesday that he and the club are “unfortunately” parting ways.

As for Boone’s process, the numbers do speak somewhat better for the quality of the Yankees’ approach.

Four seasons into Boone’s tenure as manager, fans and the media have been getting impatient with the results not catching up to the process.

The Toronto Blue Jays, who beat Boone’s Yankees on Thursday, are an embodiment of the complicated position in which the country finds itself — somewhere between on guard and running out of patience.

If winning is the best measure of a coach’s ability, the title of best movie coach surely goes to Boone.

Because Boone is a Democratic enclave thanks in part to the college students.

The Tall T, from a Leonard novelette, starred Randolph Scott and Richard Boone.

Yet whenever the writers do try to enrich Keen, Boone resists them at every turn.

Christopher John Francis Boone is a teenage “mathematician with some behavioral difficulties.”

The new president is an African-American woman, Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

As soon as the girls' capture was discovered, Boone and six other men set out in pursuit.

Boone was such a good marksman that he soon found he could kill his game with half a bullet and less powder.

While the younger girls cried helplessly, Boone's daughter, seeing it was of no use to struggle, quietly followed her captor.

In 1778, while out hunting, Boone was captured by Indians, who carried him off to Detroit.

Boone thus reached the Ohio, where he had the good luck to find a leaky canoe, in which he paddled across the stream.

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