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boneyard

/bohn-yahrd/US // ˈboʊnˌyɑrd //UK // (ˈbəʊnˌjɑːd) //

篝火晚会,篝火,篝火店,篝火场

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • 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.