McHouse

English

Etymology

From Mc- +‎ house; 1990s.

Noun

McHouse (plural McHouses)

  1. (humorous, informal) A large, expensive, generic house.
    • 1994 June 9, den...@extsparc.agsci.usu.edu, “Housewives”, in alt.angst‎[1] (Usenet):
      Anyplace where a McHouse costs $350,000 and two fully employed people can't afford one is economically out of hand.
    • 2005 May 14, Katharine Mieszkowski, “After the oil is gone”, in Salon‎[2], archived from the original on 17 June 2012:
      You can quote me: Americans will vote for cornpone Nazis before they will give up their entitlements to a McHouse and a McCar.
    • 2005, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Watching Babylon, →ISBN, page 71:
      Poor-quality employment was referred to in the 1990s as a McJob, while the large-sized off-the-shelf house design of the period became known as a McHouse.
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