Meanings
plural McHouses
- humorousinformalA large, expensive, generic house.
Anyplace where a McHouse costs $350,000 and two fully employed people can't afford one is economically out of hand.
1994 June 9, den...@extsparc.agsci.usu.edu, “Housewives”, in alt.angst (Usenet)2 more examples
You can quote me: Americans will vote for cornpone Nazis before they will give up their entitlements to a McHouse and a McCar.
2005 May 14, Katharine Mieszkowski, “After the oil is gone”, in Salon, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2012Poor-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.
2005, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Watching Babylon, →ISBN, page 71
Origin
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McHouse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/McHouse
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