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Bone lad broke in locker-room? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ribald

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'locker-room?' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'bone lad broke in' is the wordplay.
'bone' becomes 'rib' (rib is a kind of bone).
'broke' indicates an anagram.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lad' with letters rearranged gives 'ald'.
'rib' inserted into 'ald' is 'RIBALD'.

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(Other definitions for ribald that I've seen before include "Funny, but not nice" , "Scurrilous, bawdy" , "Humorously vulgar" , "Coarsely humorous; scurrilous" , "near the knuckle" .)

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