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crazy bone

noun

Definitions

  1. The funny bone

    The funny bone; the ulnar nerve in the elbow.

    • I have seen a person in England, who had touched a torpedo; and he said the shock it gave him, was like striking that tender part of the elbow, which we call the crazy bone, very hard indeed;
    • My hand was at his elbow, my fingers just at the indentation of his elbow, just about where you bump the nerve point everyone calls the “crazy-bone”.

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