A fork of Rural Dictionary
A giant, ugly immitation-mansion house. No, wait, it doesn't deserve to be called a house. It's fast food in house form. In the 1990s, they began popping up in suburban housing developments, each lawn usually perfectly landscaped. That and the ugly poorly built fairy-tale castles make those developments look too much like Disney Land. The worst part is that they're taking over America, because every new house built, no matter what the style, looks like a McMansion.
My friend moved into a McMansion yesterday. I can't understand why.
Those nausiating large suburban homes that are built from cookie-cutters that seem to pop up everywhere like McDonald's restraunts.
Chris lives over in those new McMansions.
An obscenely large home (usually of at least 3,000 square feet) in suburban America that is almost too big for its use; cheaply built from the inside out; require constant maintanence; stacked so close together in cookie cutter housing developments that you can hear your neighbor on the john; owned and occupied by pretentious, superficial people who care more about materialism and perceived status than actual value, and spend 14 hours six days a week working to pay off the over-inflated mortgage and have no time to spend with each other and experience life for what it is meant to be. The owners literally work themselves to death to pay the mortgage, who also probably struggle to pay off their 20 credit cards and SUV, but don’t have any other time to live a normal life and experience what life is all about. Despite their obscene size, they are occupied by mostly an empty nest couple who think they need like 5 bedrooms and a 3-car garage. They are built by mostly greedy developers who cram as many homes they can for profit.
But things are changing for the McMansion. They are being built less frequently and becoming less necessary as the size of the average American household declines, as the populations ages, and as the economy and housing market go to the dogs. Simply put, McMansions will soon be a thing of the past as people lose their jobs, money, life savings and everything else. In my opinion McMansions represent waste, greed, materialism and comformity, and are also probably one of the reasons the third world and even some ‘rich’ countries hate us.
The McMansion is the epitome of waste in America, and is nothing more than a status symbol for many pretentious suburban Americans who work to death trying to pay the mortgage and keep up with the Jones'.
badly proportioned pastiches of different styles, some are built with attention to detail and materials. But, as the epithet McMansion suggests, they’re just too big—for their lots, for their neighborhoods and for the number of people who actually live in them.
'The main locale for The OC are the McMansions'
Very similar in behavior to trailer trash...An individual with the outside appearance of successful living (i.e. McMansion or large house, Mercedes in the driveway, trappings, etc)...yet in actuality, conducts his/her life like an animal in the zoo (i.e. heavy substance abuse, extramarital affairs, scandals, slumming, etc.)
Mr. Jones might look successful...but he's really McMANSION TRASH...
A colloquial term used on Long Island (Western Nassau County area) used to refer to the McDonalds location in New Hyde Park. It is less commonly known as the Denton House, named after its creator, Joseph Denton, who built it in 1795. It was acquired by McDonalds in 1985.
Somebody: Woah is that huge McDonalds building over there?
Long Islander: Oh, what we call that the McMansion! Their prices are somewhat expensive though!