More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Could anyone tell me what the following headline means?


More Bodies Found Behind Bank Till

Thanks.

 

[RonBee]

Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a definition for bank till.

 

[Lib]

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

 

[RonBee]

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".

 

[Tdol]

What do you call the machines in shops and banks for keeping money? In BE, they're tills. ;-)

 

[RonBee]

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.

 

[Tdol]

I'd like to read on to find out what happened next. ;-))

 

[RonBee]

I'd like to read on to find out what happened next. ;-))

To find out what happened after they found the bodies?

 

[Tdol]

It calls for the mystery to be solved. ;-)

 

[reklov]

Obviously, they haven't been paid for yet.