Usually means: Essential elements, stripped of extras.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word bare bones:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. bare-bones, bare bones, the bare bones: Merriam-Webster
  2. bare-bones, the bare bones: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bare bones: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bare-bones: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bare bones: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bare-bones, bare-bones: Wordnik
  7. the bare bones: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bare-bones, bare bones: Wiktionary
  9. bare-bones: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bare bones: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bare-bones, bare bones: Dictionary.com
  12. Bare Bones (Bryan Adams album), Bare Bones (Madeleine Peyroux album), Bare Bones (Wishbone Ash album), Bare Bones (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. bare bones: Rhymezone
  14. bare-bones, bare bones: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bare bones: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. bare-bones, bare bones: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. bare bones: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bare bones: CCI Computer
  2. bare-bones, bare bones: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bare-bones, bare bones, the bare bones: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bare bones: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bare_bone as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bare bones)

noun:  The essential elements of something; the minimum viable set of elements; especially when they are described without going into detail.

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