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Old 15-Jul-2003, 22:01
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Could anyone tell me what the following headline means?


More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till

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Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a definition for bank till.
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Default Re: More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till

till = until?
Or till = where the shop assistant / bank clerk puts the money handed in by customers.
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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
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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.


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The headline was, supposedly: "More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till".
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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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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.
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I'd like to read on to find out what happened next. )
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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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Default Re: More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till

Obviously, they haven't been paid for yet.
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