Landscraper
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
"But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask."
- 2 A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
""We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex."
- 3 A gardener or gardener. nonstandard
""I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . .""
Example
More examples"But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask."
Etymology
From land + -scraper.
Compound of land + scraper.
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