crazy bone

English

Noun

crazy bone (plural crazy bones)

  1. The funny bone; the ulnar nerve in the elbow.
    • 1830, Mrs. John Farrar, The Children's Robinson Crusoe‎, page 318:
      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;
    • 2008, Thomas S. Purtell, Natural Martial Arts‎, page 34:
      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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