The word bone(s) has many meanings:

• Bone is a hard tissue found in the skeleton of vertebrates animals. It is a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen.

Music

• The bones (instrument) are a musical instrument sometimes made out of actual bone.
• Bone (recording)s are Soviet-era bootleg records, scratched into scavanged sheets of plastic (often from medical x-rays) using a modified turntable and often containing punk rock music.
• Bones (drummer) was the original drummer with punk outfit The Anti-Nowhere League
• Bones (song) is a song by Radiohead on their second album, The Bends.

Television/film

• Bones is the nickname of Star Trek character Dr. Leonard McCoy, or more generally any doctor.
• Bones (TV series) is a Fox network crime drama.
• BONES (studio) is a Japanese animation studio.
• Bones (movie) is a horror film starring Snoop Dogg.

Placenames

• Bône is a city in Algeria. Its ancient name was Hippo Regius.
• Bone state was an Indonesian state, existing from 1350 to 1960 and ruled by an Arumpone of the Bone ruling family.

Slang terminology

• Bones is another term for the games of dominos or dice.
• "Bones" is a slang nickname for the US Navy's Jolly Rogers squadron.
• Bone is the nickname of the US Air Force's B-1B Lancer strategic bomber.
• It can also be slang for a U.S. one hundred-dollar bill.
• To engage in penetrative intercourse
• Bone is a catchphrase of Taylor ("Goose") Luck in the BC universe
• In the Cosa Nostra and other gangs, "made his bones" means to become a made man
• Bone is a term used to refer to a lighter of "Bone-White" color. These types of lighters are often considered lucky in 420 (cannabis culture).

Other

• Bone Network is the name of a proprietary chat network.
• BeOS Networking Environment (BONE), a networking environment for the BeOS.
• Bones is a bot from the game Quake III Arena.
• A bone (corsetry) is a rigid vertical rib that gives a corset its shape and rigidity. Whalebone was originally used for corset boning because of its mild elasticity.
• Bone (comics) is also the name of a series of comic books/graphic novels by Jeff Smith, and of the computer adventure games based on them produced by Telltale Games.
• Napier's bones, an abacus invented by John Napier
• Ricky Bones is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.