Bones
Bones noun - A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
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Stiff
Stiff noun - A dead body.
Usage example: to the mortician, a stiff was a stiff and they were all pretty much alike
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Actually, their neck had relatively few vertebrae like a giraffe's and were relatively stiff (expecially if compared with their flexible tails which had often more than 50-70 bones).
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Dem Bones: "Scared Stiff" was a skeletal robot ghost — and, of course, Prime Evil, at least from the neck up, was similarly roboto-skeletal.
- No Flow in CGI: Mostly averted by the cape physics of many Champions, and while the hair on certain characters like Captain Marvel and Storm's mohawks used to be stiff as a board and prone to clipping, later updates added jiggle bones to it so it moves more naturally.
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