landscraper
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]landscraper (plural landscrapers)
- A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
- 2009 December 28, Dennis Yusko, “Skidmore's sounds of music”, in The Times-Union[1]:
- 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.
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See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]landscraper (plural landscrapers)
- A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
- 1990 July 22, “Activists protest earth-moving at waste facility site”, in Mohave Daily MIner[2]:
- "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.
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- (nonstandard) A gardener or gardener.
- 1926, Olive Dean Hormel, Co-Ed, Charles Scriber's Sons, published 1926, page 184:
- "I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . ."
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