Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. stupid, incompetent.

1919

Van Loan ‘Excess Baggage’ in Score by Innings (2004) 394: Everybody makes at least one frightful bone play that he hates to have thrown up at him.

2. bad, false.

1993

Lerner et al. Dict. of Today’s Words 21: Useless, false, or foolishly wacky: ‘Don’t give me no bone excuses’.