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  • noun Plural form of morgue.

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Examples

  • COOPER: And, Rusty, I mean, you have spent time with some of these families, I mean, they are calling the morgues every day, they are trying to get information.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2005 2005

  • After a while, zoos started to take advantage of April Fools 'Day, "doing things like actually having a chimp answer the phones," said Mr. Boese, but "as soon as telephone technology became widespread, you had a change in trends, with kids calling morgues asking for Mr. Stiff, that sort of thing."

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • The "morgues" where the newspaper archives are kept are goldmines which their owners have seemed clueless about how to monetise.

    Journalists as database reporters 2007

  • The "morgues" where the newspaper archives are kept are goldmines which their owners have seemed clueless about how to monetise.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Once upon a time, news stories were entombed in newspaper "morgues" and rarely saw the dusty light of day.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Miller-McCune.com Melinda Burns 2010

  • Once upon a time, news stories were entombed in newspaper "morgues" and rarely saw the dusty light of day.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Miller-McCune.com Melinda Burns 2010

  • After a strange electrical disturbance in Stockholm, the newly dead beging to reanimate in morgues and cemeteries across the city.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • Nope, the dead are doing a good job of that too, as they all disappear from their respective morgues and literally take Manhatten.

    Rabid Reads "The Strain" by Chuck Hogan * Guillermo Del Toro 2009

  • It isn't until they ship all of the bodies to various morgues in the city that things go from odd to downright H.F.S. status -- Holy F'ing you know the rest.

    Rabid Reads "The Strain" by Chuck Hogan * Guillermo Del Toro 2009

  • After a strange electrical disturbance in Stockholm, the newly dead beging to reanimate in morgues and cemeteries across the city.

    Wish List Wednesday #53: Handling the Undead 2010

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