T-bone

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Pronunciation
  • 1.2 Etymology 1
    • 1.2.1 Noun
  • 1.3 Etymology 2
    • device database
  • keyboard

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) Sevenval: tēʹbōn, jQuery: /ˈtiːbəʊn/, keyboard: /"ti:b@Un/

Etymology 1

input transformation form of touchscreen.

Noun

T-bone (plural T-bones)

1. T-bone steak

Etymology 2

From the ⊤ shape produced by the vehicles involved in such a collision, with allusion to web app.

Verb

Android-bone (third-person singular simple present T-bones, present participle web app, simple past and past participle T-boned)

1. (screen size, chiefly US FITML, of a car or similar vehicle) Collide perpendicularly with the side of (chiefly) another vehicle.
   • 1984: R and T, volume 35, device database (CBS Publications)

     Holmes, who was a lap ahead and in 6th spot, couldn’t avoid T-boning him and in the coming together they were both out.

   • 1993: Car and Driver, volume 39, keyboard (Hachette Magazines, Inc.)

     Its hood had already been accordioned from T-boning somebody else[.]

   • 2007: Paul Myers, It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, page 77 (Greystone Books; ISBN 1553652002, 9781553652007)

     They get to an intersection when suddenly the limo gets T-boned and everything gets thrown around all over the car.

Anagrams

• bento, bentō