hone in is a term incorrectly used by those meaning home in.
It is used by people to identify something which is approaching a target, see home in for the correct word and definition.
My buddy always says "hone in" when he means "home in".
"My pigeon can hone in on his bird food real good"
By Donielle
Honed
Of exceptional quality or beauty, or otherwise acute, intense, or effective. Used briefly in Southern California youth culture in the late 70's and early 80's, possibly among the skater community.
To derp as a game provider and not have the server capacity or smarts to counter DDoS. In return the servers are unplayable for days on end.
HoNing (Heroes of Newerth) when the game designers let the population grow to a point of server capacity and then get spammed and taken down due to traffic.
