Meaning of crazy bone | Babel Free

Definitions

The funny bone; the ulnar nerve in the elbow.

Examples

“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;”

“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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