Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
(RQ:Sinclair Jungle)
The packers were always originating such schemes—they had what they called "boneless hams," which were all the odds and ends of pork stuffed into casings.
I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit ... which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder." My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.
(quote-journal) (Review)|date=11 May 2014|passage=In his final years he &91;(w)&93; gave an interview to an American journalist who noticed that "his handshake is a boneless fadeaway".