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Bald-rib

A thin bony person : jocularly colloquial; from ca. 1620. Ex S.E. sense, "a joint of pork cut nearer the rump than the spare-rib", S.O.D.

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ... by Eric Partridge, 6th edition. Copyright (C) Eric Partridge, 1967. New York: Macmillan Co, 1967.


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