(UK, AU, colloquial) cemetery.
I'm planning a trip to the cem next week to gather some genealogical information.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, colloquial) crematorium.
British colloquial shortening of 'crematorium.' Used without particular delicacy in everyday British speech — cremation is common and the abbreviation is practical rather than euphemistic. Heard in conversations about funerals and memorial services and in local news coverage. Unremarkable in British English; would need context for non-British audiences.
A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
(informal) A graveyard.
(chiefly, US) cemeteries]] in the American Old West; nickname for any cemetery.