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noun Chiefly Northern, Midland, and Western U.S.

funny bone.

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Origin of crazy bone

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Words nearby crazy bone

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How to use crazy bone in a sentence

You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.
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"That was crazy," Lynn Jenkins of Kansas muttered to another member as she walked to greet Boehner.
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He came to Phoenix once and we went up to see him, and they got so crazy that I ended up trying to hitchhike home.
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Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?
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That goodness steered him clear of the Sex Boys, the Crazy Homicides, the Sons of Nuns, and the other gangs of East New York.
In The Shadow of Murdered Cops|Michael Daly|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All Weimar adores him, and people say that women still go perfectly crazy over him.
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The wheezy, crazy mechanism of the car went to bits in unexpected places.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
I saw this girl, eight or nine years old, all benumbed and nothing but skin and bone.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
Half-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.
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Sometimes he looks at me as if he were going to break out with that crazy idea to which he treated me the other day.
Confidence|Henry James

British Dictionary definitions for crazy bone

crazy bone

noun

a US name for funny bone

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