graveyard

sostantivo

1. 1

   A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

2. 2

   figuratoA final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.

   They're all out on this southbound odyssey / And the train pulls out of Kankakee / Rolls past the houses, farms, and fields / Passing towns that have no name / And freight yards full of old black men / And the graveyards of rusted automobiles.

3. 3

   figuratoA final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable. The discard pile, in some trading card games.

   Certain cards place other cards here because such cards might have abilities deemed too strong if they sent them to the graveyard instead.

   If you want to be tricky, though, Rapid Decay can be a flying elbow drop out of nowhere for a surprise win against graveyard manipulation decks; they will always see a Beetles coming, remember.

   When a player does discard or use a card or when a creature also died or a spell gets destroyed, that card gets placed into the player's graveyard.

4. 4

   figuratoA final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable. A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.

5. 5

   A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.

   graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch

   Her husband, of course, came dressed as Herman Melville.) She's a veteran of these marathons, and warned me about the forthcoming graveyard stretch—when Moby-Dick melds with the altered brain chemistry of sleep deprivation.

6. 6

   gergoSynonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).

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graveyards