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pizza bone

pizza bone

4.0
A chew for dogs shaped like a pizza slice given as a treat
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : hueso de pizza
  • After dinner, she rewarded her dog with a pizza bone for good behavior.

Examples

  • My puppy loves to gnaw on his pizza bone for hours.

  • The pet store sells several flavors of pizza bone treats.

  • My dog loves his pizza bone!

  • I bought a pizza bone for Max.

  • After dinner, she rewarded her dog with a pizza bone for good behavior.

  • My puppy loves to gnaw on his pizza bone for hours.

  • The pet store sells several flavors of pizza bone treats.

Synonyms

dog biscuit
vspizza bone
4 1.0

A hard dry food for dogs often used as a treat

is a novelty chew shaped like a food slice or crust given as a treat

How Durable

rawhide
10 6.7
pizza bone
  • US
4.0
teether
1 3.0
hard candy
  • US
7 1.0

Surface Forms

pizza bone singular
pizza bones plural

Morphology

pizza + bone

This is a regular modifier+noun composition where 'pizza' describes the kind of 'bone'; a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it is a bone related to pizza (e.g., shaped or flavored like a pizza) and plausibly a novelty dog treat. The meaning is directly built from the constituents and follows normal English compounding, without idiomatic shift.

Etymology

Pizza bone is a playful name for a dog chew that looks like a slice of pizza or a pizza crust. The word pizza points to its shape and the word bone shows it is something for a dog to chew, so pizza bone means 'a chew' or 'treat' given to a dog.