Definition of "shoulder blade" [shoulder blade]

• See scapula. (noun)

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• "A man began to tap on the mammoth shoulder blade like Tornec's with an antler hammer."
• "At the dressing station they discovered a bullet wound in Ribbentrop's right shoulder blade and another in his left shoulder."