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graveyard shift
Working hours throughout the night.
graveyard school
graveyard shifts
Working hours throughout the night.
graveyard spiral
(aviation) The downward, corkscrew-motion of a disabled aircraft which is unrecoverably headed for a crash.
graveyard watch
Nighttime shift at a cemetery.
Graveyard poets
The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", were a number of pre-Romantic poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms"Blair: The Grave 23 elicited by the presence of the graveyard.
graveyard orbit
(space science) An orbit where spacecraft which have reached their end of life can be safely positioned to avoid colliding with other spacecraft or the Earth.
graveyard slot
Late-night, low-viewership television programming.
graveyard market
Stock market with declining prices.
graveyard stew
Synonym of milk toast
graveyard orbits
the graveyard shift
Working hours throughout the night.
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