Mc- pfx
1. (orig. US campus) used to emphasize the mediocre or mass-market quality of the combined n.
Slanguage n.p.: Mcmoon [‘moon’]. | ||
Homeboy 159: They’re only here to bail out one of the McBimbos. | ||
Guardian Media 8 Nov. 2: There was hardly a newspaper editor who did not denounce it as the ‘Mac’ paper – journalism peddled as fast food. | ||
Indep. Rev. 10 Sept. 8: Vast new houses with marble swimming pools dubbed ‘McMansions’. | ||
Observer 5 Mar. 28: Global ‘McCulture’ is a tragedy. | ||
Campus Sl. Nov. 5: mcfired – terminated in an embarrassing way from a low-paying job: You got mcfired from WallMart? | ||
My Lives 223: I pictured them living in a McMansion on an acre and a half. | ||
news.com.au 30 Nov. 🌐 Demographer Mark McCrindle said despite forecasts of a McMansion glut in Australia [...] the McDonald’s of housing is a vision of things to come. | ||
Guardian 7 Oct. 🌐 Set against an ultra-bling backdrop of McMansions, beauty salons and champagne pool parties [etc]. | ||
Base Nature [ebook] [P]eering instead at the properties on the other side of the road, ugly McMansions set back from the cliffs. | ||
Opal Country 463: Torshack appears to be barricaded inside the grand house, the McMansion. |
2. implying the obesity of those described.
Independent 13 Apr. 🌐 ‘McPassengers’ to be offered extra-wide seats [...] European aircraft manufacturer Airbus is to offer [...] seats to cater for super-sized passengers. |