Golgotha

  1. Proper noun.  (biblical) The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
  2. Proper noun.  At Oxbridge colleges in the 18th and 19th centuries, a slang term for the rooms of the heads of the colleges (i.e. a pun on 'the place of the skulls or heads'). .

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