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- noun A member of the Skull and Bones
secret society at Yale University, USA.
Etymologies
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Examples
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FEYERICK: For decades members called Bonesman dismissed the suggestion as a hoax, but a Bonesman's letter written in 1918 discovered two years ago at Yale suggests otherwise.
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Mead's report was addressed to his fellow "Bonesman" F.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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Predictably, the DNC (already assured YOUR votes were in the bag) responded by running the hemming-hawing obfuscator (and fellow Bush 'Bonesman'!)
"Why Vote?" 2006
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Mead's report was addressed to his fellow "Bonesman" F.
Geronimo's Bones 2006
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Wilson confesses that he's kept secret the suicide of his father who was an admiral and a Bonesman himself.
Reviews Too Late: The Good Shepherd Walter Jon Williams 2010
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In the last election, Kerry was running against a fellow-Bonesman.
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The Bonesman in the Village wouldn't stand for it any other way.
"The trouble with Sanjay Gupta," says Paul Krugman, is seen in the way he "mugged" Michael Moore. Ann Althouse 2009
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Please find a single example in history in which a Bonesman, no matter how bone-headed, has been allowed to fail in even the most outrageous displays of incompetence in business, politics, etc.
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In the last election, Kerry was running against a fellow-Bonesman.
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He's a Bonesman, untouched and untouchable, as are his circle of friendsters who pay vigorously and thrive.
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