T-bone

Meanings

Noun

T-bone steak
A vehicular collision of this kind.

Verb

To collide perpendicularly with the side of something, usually another vehicle.

Origin

Elliptical form of T-bone steak.
From the ⊤ shape produced by the vehicles involved in such a collision, with allusion to T-bone ¹.

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