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boneyard

[ bohn-yahrd ]

noun

  1. Slang. a cemetery.
  2. Slang. an area where old or discarded cars, ships, planes, etc., are collected prior to being broken up for scrap or otherwise disposed of.
  3. Also called stock. Dominoes. the bank, consisting of the remaining dominoes after each person has made an initial draw.
  4. a place or area where the bones of wild animals accumulate or are collected.


boneyard

/ ˈbəʊnˌjɑːd /

noun

  1. an informal name for a cemetery
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boneyard1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55; bone + yard 2
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Example Sentences

Hawthorne would plainly have seized the romantic essence of the idea and would have avoided the boneyard of ‘problem morality.’

What had been a flourishing cattle country was a boneyard where the agents of fertilizer factories bargained for skeletons.

I've seen 'all-right' men like you hitting the hurry trail for the boneyard before now.

If it hadn't been for my dog his old boneyard could never have gone twice around the track, anyway.

Then one day he drove a team of boneyard mules into Blue Dog with a wagonload of stuff that the natives stared at.

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