The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SKELETON
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More clues leading to the result SKELETON
- Poet retaining English structure as basis
- Bob or crew cut?
- Sort of bob, remarkably sleek fashion
- Poet keeping English as framework
- Thankless task to get the Spanish school structural support
- Poet framing end of verse - the bare bones?
- Bob, going downhill rapidly, very bony appearance
- Carelessly lost knee bones
- Basic structure half of sketch revealed
- Doctor lost knee bones!
Buddy explains!
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What does SKELETON mean?
SKELETON noun- The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- A very thin person.
- The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
- A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- A very thin form of light-faced type.
- (attributive) Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.
- To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
- To minimize
- A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.