When your dick gets hard. Called a boner because its hard as bone. Can occur anywhere, anytime, but most commonly in sexual situations. "Tenting" is when it goes horizontalin your pants, typically an embarrassing thing.
(n.) a crush on a trombone player. The most intense kind of boner is had by a trombone player, for another trombone player, creating perhaps the nerdiest of infatuations and resulting in spontaneous combustion.