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15-Jul-2003, 22:01
| | |  More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till
Hi,
Could anyone tell me what the following headline means?
More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till
Thanks. |
16-Jul-2003, 01:58
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Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a definition for bank till.
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| | Re: More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till
till = until?
Or till = where the shop assistant / bank clerk puts the money handed in by customers. |
16-Jul-2003, 12:41
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till3 (tl)
n.
1. A drawer, small chest, or compartment for money, as in a store.
2. A supply of money; a purse.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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till
\Till\, n. 1. (Geol.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
2. A kind of coarse, obdurate land. --Loudon.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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The headline was, supposedly: "More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till".
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18-Jul-2003, 21:07
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What do you call the machines in shops and banks for keeping money? In BE, they're tills.  |
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Originally Posted by tdol What do you call the machines in shops and banks for keeping money? In BE, they're tills. | In AE they are also called tills, but you don't bury bodies behind them. For one thing, they aren't stationary. |
19-Jul-2003, 18:49
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I'd like to read on to find out what happened next. ) |
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Originally Posted by tdol I'd like to read on to find out what happened next. ) | To find out what happened after they found the bodies? |
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It calls for the mystery to be solved. |
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| | Re: More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till
Obviously, they haven't been paid for yet.  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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