boneyard
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- noun
- /ˈboʊniˌjɑrd/
- Slang
:
cementerio
- This is the boneyard.
Examples
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A mob of press, morbid curiosity-seekers, even some overnight penguin-groupies, try to muscle their way into this grand, well-tended boneyard for the rich and expired.
Fiction book (1992) -
Cemetery boneyard!
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We're gonna make us something mighty from this boneyard, from all these body parts.
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Christ, it's a bleeding boneyard!
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Boy, I never thought old Waxer would end up in the boneyard.
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A boneyard?
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A boneyard?
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Life is nothing but the stinking filthy boneyard... of dead rotting tramps.
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Look, I know I ain't some slab jockey wandering the boneyards.
Fiction book (1999) -
They decided to visit the old boneyard to pay their respects to their ancestors.
Synonyms
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2.8
A place where people are buried, often with headstones
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A place in the ground where a dead body is buried
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1.8
A place where people are buried after they die
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3.9
A place where people are buried, like a cemetery
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3.8
The place in the ground where someone is buried
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A yard next to a church with graves, often in Scotland or Northern England
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word boneyard comes from bone ('skeleton') and yard ('a place'), and it was used as a slang word for a graveyard where dead bodies are buried. So calling a cemetery a boneyard gives the image of a place of bones.