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[muckefuck]

Nothing can make me feel my parser is broken like a news headline. I sometimes wonder if my brain works so differently from that of the target reader that I'm the only who's baffled by journalists' stabs at brevity. Here's tonight's puzzler. Do me a favour and guess what it means before you check your answer at the BBC page where I found it.

Tube death team to brief family

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

Without looking at the article or previous comments on this entry: I'll guess that "brief" is the verb, so it expands to something like "The team which investigated deaths on the recent tubs strikes is to brief [convey information to] the family of a victim".

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's how I read it.