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n. 1 (plural of skeleton English) 2 shameful secret (''pluralia tantum''; shortened from skeletons in the cupboard or skeletons in the closet).

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Skeletons (band)

Skeletons (also known as Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys, Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities, and Skeleton$) are an American entertainment unit from Oberlin, Ohio. They currently live in New York City.

Skeletons began as the solo project of Chicago native musician and filmmaker Matt Mehlan in 2001. In 2003, Mehlan released the albums Life and the Afterbirth and I'm At the Top of the World on Shinkoyo, an Oberlin College-based music collective known for its focus on group improvisation and DIY ethics. Following the name change from Skeletons to Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys and the addition of a rotating cast of collaborators, the full-length Git was released on Ghostly International Records in June 2005. In 2007, Skeletons released the album Lucas, also on Ghostly, under the name Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. The album was recorded in the band's converted Queens warehouse studio and home, The Silent Barn.

Lucas was described by Pitchfork as "an outsize global-a-go-go mélange of unceasing polyrhythms, Afrobeat guitars, free jazz, and Timbaland's approach to kitchen-sink percussion."

A Full-length entitled Money was released November 4, 2008, on Tomlab.

In 2009, Skeletons began playing occasional shows as a large ensemble titled Skeletons Big Band. Some of the compositions played by the Skeletons Big Band were eventually recorded and released on Skeletons' most recent album PEOPLE, released on April 26, 2011. The rest of the material from the Skeleton Big Band shows will be released later in 2011 for a Skeletons Big Band album.

Skeletons (Nothingface album)

Skeletons is the fourth and final studio album by the American heavy metal band Nothingface. The album was released on April 22, 2003, via TVT Records, their second as well as last album released on the label. The album is considered Nothingface's most diverse release to date, featuring elements of genres such as thrash metal and hardcore.

Skeletons (Wednesday 13 album)

Skeletons is the third studio album by American horror punk musician Wednesday 13. It was released on April 29, 2008, available exclusively through Hot Topic locations in the United States, and in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2008 by DR2 Records, a subdivision of Demolition Records. It has been described as having a heavier and darker tone than previous efforts. Skeletons was meant to be preceded one month earlier by an EP entitled Bloodwork, however by the release date of Skeletons, Bloodwork had also become available for digital download.

Skeletons (Stevie Wonder song)

"Skeletons" is a number-one R&B single performed by American recording artist Stevie Wonder from his 1987 Characters album. The song earned Stevie Wonder two 1988 Grammy Award nominations for Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, while the album Characters would be nominated the following year for Best R&B Male Vocal Performance.

"Skeletons" went to number one on the Black Singles Chart, and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 19, and was the final top 40 hit for Wonder to date. The single also peaked at number 20 on the US dance chart.

The song is an R&B and synthpop record about lies and deceptions being uncovered. One version features short sound bites from prominent figures such as Col. Oliver North ("I am not ashamed of anything in my professional and personal conduct") and President Ronald Reagan ("The United States has not made concessions to those who hold our people captive in Lebanon") among others. This has remained a popular R&B uptempo song for Stevie Wonder, as well receiving airplay from urban radio stations.

The song was featured in the 1988 action film Die Hard, played when the character Argyle speaks on the phone.

The song was also used in the second trailer of the video game Grand Theft Auto V, as well as appearing on the in-game radio station Space 103.2, reigniting the popularity of the song on sites such as YouTube.

Skeletons (Hawthorne Heights album)

Skeletons is the fourth full-length studio album by American rock band Hawthorne Heights, released June 1, 2010. It is their first and only album to be released through Wind-up Records, and is also the first release since If Only You Were Lonely to employ screamed vocals, with guitarist Micah Carli adding limited vocals into select tracks on the record. The album was produced by Howard Benson. The album peaked at #50 on the Billboard top 200 albums.

Skeletons (Yeah Yeah Yeahs song)

"Skeletons" is the third single from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third album It's Blitz!. The 7" edition of the single, limited to 500 copies, was released on March 1, 2010. The single was also released on January 31, 2010, in the iTunes Store.

Skeletons (film)

Skeletons is a 2010 British film directed by Nick Whitfield, starring Ed Gaughan, Andrew Buckley, and Jason Isaacs. It was nominated for 'Outstanding Debut by a British Director' at the 64th British Academy Film Awards. Skeletons was the winner of the "Best new British feature film" award at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Skeletons (Sirens and Sailors album)

Skeletons is the debut studio album by American metalcore band Sirens and Sailors. The album was released on October 29, 2013 through Artery Recordings and Razor & Tie.

Skeletons (Danzig album)

Skeletons is the tenth studio album by the American heavy metal band Danzig, released in November 2015 and consisting entirely of cover versions of songs from the 1960s through 1980s, selected by singer Glenn Danzig.

Usage examples of "skeletons".

French group reported on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from skeletons dug from a two-thousand-year-old necropolis in Mongolia.

And he made a lanky skeleton, which is, of course, one of the most demoralizing types of skeletons to encounter.

No matter how convivial and responsive strong drink makes individuals, they still remain unreconciled to skeletons who carry on quite as if nothing untoward had occurred.

The most distinguished of skeletons could hardly be a satisfactory lover.

Quite naturally he concluded that you had gone in for skeletons and brought one home with you to take his place.

Stripped of flesh, he would look exactly like Senor Toledo, she decided, yet did not all skeletons look almost exactly alike?

And it was almost the last sight, for Kelley, in spite of his stout heart, did not hold with graves and skeletons and burials by night.

When thinking of skeletons the average person, for no definite reason, almost invariably visualizes a human skeleton instead of that of a horse or a cow or a dog.

Articles mention mosaics, scrolls, the synagogue, themikvehs, the three skeletons from the northern palace.

In theJerusalem Post on March 28, 1965, Yadin is quoted as lamenting that only twenty-eight skeletons had been found at Masada.

Why suggest reburial of the palace skeletons on Masada, but return of the cave bones to the cave?

In his rants to the Knesset, Lorinez insisted that some Masada skeletons had been sent abroad.

Yadin devoted barely a page to the cave skeletons, and included only one lonely photo.

He gave detailed information on the period of the Jewish revolt, including an elaborate discussion of the three skeletons found in the northern palace.

Yadin estimated there were more than twenty cave skeletons, but Haas catalogs only two hundred and twenty individual bones.