pin bone

1. 1.

   part of the sirloin between the flat bone and the porterhouse

   Broadercut of beef

   Part ofsirloin

Questions about pin bone

What does pin bone mean?

pin bone means "part of the sirloin between the flat bone and the porterhouse".

Is pin bone a common word?

pin bone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.