The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SHIN
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SHIN
- Some beef? Wrong to eat horse
- Something wrong, swallowing hot piece of beef
- Swarm hurtling out of rug
- Be wrong about hard climb
- Just tops to see Hoskins in negligee, showing bit of leg
- Religion cutting to the bone
- Body part seen during washing
- Mum’s supplied with hip bone
- Excel hiding foot, revealing bit of leg
- Something wrong swallowing hot piece of beef
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The straight part
We know that "the bone" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case the bone = shin.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SHIN mean?
SHIN noun- The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone
- A fishplate for a railway.
- (as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
- To strike with the shin.
- To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
- The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter)