Crossword-Solution: WISHBONE 8 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Wishbone n. The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; --
called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and
Furculum.

We have 21 clues for the answer “WISHBONE”

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Offensive formation 1 answer
Thanksgiving snapper 1 answer
Thanksgiving prize 1 answer
Thanksgiving fork? 1 answer
T-formation variant 1 answer
T formation alternative 1 answer
Source of a lucky break? 1 answer
Relative of a drumstick 1 answer
Part of a chicken. 1 answer
Lucky break provider? 1 answer
It could provide a lucky break? 1 answer
Bit of the bird associated with luck 1 answer
A forked bone between the neck and breast of a bird 1 answer
Turkey part broken for good luck 1 answer
Turkey part that may be broken for luck 1 answer
V-shaped bone above the breastbone of a fowl 1 answer
merry-thought 2 answers
Turkey feature 2 answers
Football formation 8 answers
Turkey part 8 answers
A VARIANT PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF A MORPHEME 11 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with WISHBONE (5)

They couldn’t find no letters nor nothing on him; nothing but an old penknife in his pocket and the wishbone of a chicken wrapped up in a piece of paper, and some poetry.’ ‘Some poetry?’ we exclaimed.
My Ántonia Willa Cather 1995
When both sides of carcass and wishbone are loosened, lift carcass and cut breastbone away from meat.
The Perdue Chicken Cookbook Mitzi Perdue 1999
Replacing the string, the knife, the wishbone and the marbles, he ignited the match against the tightest part of his person and lit the cigarette.
A Damsel in Distress P. G. Wodehouse 2000
Ragged he was, with a split shirt front open to the wishbone; but the November breeze, carrying fine snowflakes, brought him only a grateful coolness.
The Trimmed Lamp O. Henry 2001
Remove the leg and wing from the other side; separate the wishbone with the meat on it, from the breast, cut through the ribs on each side, and separate the breast from the back.
School and Home Cooking Carlotta C. Greer 2004

Quotes with WISHBONE (3)

The wishbone will never replace the backbone
Will Henry
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
Shannon L. Alder
Wishbone Half-eaten chickenlying on white serving platequartered potatoeschunks of carrotscelery toowe tell storiesand laugh about the dayyour little finger is locked around the wishboneso is mine I pretend to make a wishclose my eyesmumbling my lipsthat’s the way I faked out the nunspretending to say the rosaryso they would leave me aloneyour face is so determinedyou win the wrestling matchlifting your piece of chicken bone above your head in victory I know better than to as…
Robert Hobkirk Somewhere Poetry Grows Wild Under the Eucalyptus
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 18 times in crossword archives (1956–2024).