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    What it means

    Literally “park of the stiff ones.” A dark, colloquial slang term for a cemetery.

    Vocabulary

    • sztywny — stiff (slang for a corpse)

    Grammar note

    Genitive plural 'sztywnych' used as a noun.

    Cultural context

    A bit like 'the boneyard' in English.

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