Meaning

4 senses
  1. (informal)A graveyard.

  2. In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used.

  3. (slang)A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard.

    B-52s in a boneyard

    a 440 V-8 from the boneyard

  4. An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire.

Origin

From bone + yard.

From bone + yard.

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Forms

plural: boneyards
Singularboneyard
Pluralboneyards

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
dumpsite for aircraft:aircraft graveyard

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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