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boneyard
noun- a cemetery US, 1866
- “Among other places, at the boneyard,” I clued her in. — Frederick Kohner, The Affairs of Gidget, p. 119, 1963
- A minister funeralized over his coffin and all the tiny town’s eyes were flued on the windy old boneyard. — Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson’s Apocalypse, p. 75, 1973
- — Bill Davis, Jawjacking, p. 20, 1977
- So if he did the work on the plumber he would be sending the only woman he had ever really loved to a boneyard. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Money, p. 90, 1994
- [W]ith that gear you can indulge yourself into the boneyard. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 61, 2000
- in various industrial settings, the site for dumping broken vehicles and equipment which can be cannibalised for parts US, 1913
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 18, 1977
- in dominoes, the pile of unusued tiles US, 1897
- — Dominic Armanino, Dominoes, p. 16, 1959
- Never mind the sun, Homer–help yourself to the boneyard–you’re
- pegs from a skunking. [Homer comic strip] — San Francisco Examiner, p. 48, 2 April 1963
- the area off a beach where waves break US, 1965
- [O]n Malibu Mac’s how to get out of a “boneyard” when you’re caught in the middle of a set of breakers–and on Scooterboy Miller’s hot rod I learned how to avoid a pearl dive. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. a, 1957
- — John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea, p. 280, 1965
- a conjugal visit in prison US
- — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 28, 1989
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