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1starter castle — (STAR.tur kas.ul) n. A large home built on a relatively small property. Example Citation: But as the dimensions of private homes in some parts of the city have grown from 8,000 to 20,000 to 30,000 and even 40,000 square feet the lots on which… …
2starter marriage — n. A first marriage that lasts only a short time and that ends in a clean (i.e., no kids, no property, no acrimony) divorce. (Cf. starter home.) Example Citation: The past ten years has seen a surge in what are now called starter marriages, as… …
3Castle (TV series) — Castle Genre Police procedural Comedy drama Created by …
4McMansion — A large house with complex rooflines under construction in Louisville, Kentucky. McMansion is a pejorative term for a large new house which is judged as pretentious, tasteless, or badly designed for its neighborhood. Alternately, a McMansion is a …
5Garage Mahal — (guh.RAZH muh.hawl) n. A large or opulent garage or parking structure. Also: garage mahal, garage mahal. Example Citations: Baylor s $ 15 million parking garage, with steeples and towers, has been called Garage Mahal and will house a Starbucks.… …
6Housing and Architecture — advertecture appraisal mill architectural myopia architourist BANANA barkitecture big hair house …
7McMansion — (muhk.MAN.shun) n. A large, opulent house, especially a new house that has a size and style that doesn t fit in with the surrounding houses. Example Citation: In a world of bloated S.U.V. s and rambling McMansions, there are times when smaller is …
8affluenza — (AF.loo.en.zuh) n. An extreme form of materialism in which consumers overwork and accumulate high levels of debt to purchase more goods (affluence + influenza). Example Citation: Our society is more troubled by problems of overabundance. We are… …
9big hair house — (BIG.hayr hows) n. A house that has a garish style and that is overly large compared to its lot size and to the surrounding houses. Example Citation: Yet the newest residential rage in Dallas is the antithesis of the traditional neighborhood: the …
10bully offer — n. An aggressively high offer for a house, particularly one made before the official date that offers are to be accepted. Example Citations: This past week I was about to preview a condo in downtown Toronto with the understanding that all offers… …
