Associations to the word «Graveyard»

GRAVEYARD, noun. A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

GRAVEYARD, noun. (figuratively) (by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.

GRAVEYARD, noun. (card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.

GRAVEYARD, noun. (sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.

GRAVEYARD POETRY, noun. A type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds. Popular in the pre-romantic period of 18th-century Britain.

GRAVEYARD SHIFT, noun. A night shift in a factory or other place of work, especially one from midnight to 8 AM on a three-shift schedule.

GRAVEYARD SHIFTS, noun. Plural of graveyard shift

GRAVEYARD SLOT, noun. (television) A time period in which a television audience is very small compared to other times of the day.

GRAVEYARD SLOTS, noun. Plural of graveyard slot

GRAVEYARD SPIRAL, noun. (aviation) The downward, corkscrew-motion of a disabled aircraft which is unrecoverably headed for a crash.

GRAVEYARD WATCH, noun. (nautical) The middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am.

GRAVEYARD, noun. A tract of land used for burials.