a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
n. the night shift of work in a factory, usually starting at about midnight. (See also swing shift.) : The pay is pretty good on the graveyard shift.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Jerry won't be working a graveyard shift, there's no one left to harangue, and the mood will be valedictory.
People worked the swing shift and then partied through the graveyard shift until dawn.
He had entered a drug-treatment program and landed a job working the graveyard shift at a condiment factory in the suburbs.
The graveyard shift has always been a lonely one to work, but new data suggest that it may be an unhealthy one as well.