Meanings
- rareuncountableAn area with a great amount of skyscrapers.
Smith & Wollensky, corner of Third Avenue and 49th Street (tel. 753-1530), is a big (seating capacity: 400), old-fashioned green and white wooden building in the heart of Third Avenue skyscraperland.
1991, John Foreman, New York State (Frommer’s), 2nd edition, pages 71–723 more examples
Two forces jostle each other in the American Psyche: the drive to make it big in the culture of corporate skyscraperland; and the yearning to escape these cell-blocks and embrace “meaningful” existence by roaming the frontier as some kind of cowboy or new age hipster.
1989, Enclitic, volume 11, page 85The editor, some butch British fuck named Arthur St. George, took it upon himself to turn his review of Rocket Heart into an editorial on the evils of irresponsible rock-star life and made this screed the Editor’s Note, right under a picture of him looking smarmy at his desk in skyscraperland.
2009, Michael Shilling, Rock Bottom: A Novel, Back Bay Books, →ISBNA replaying perhaps by my mind / of the time / I lost my passport / in San Francisco / and the hectic day spent / reporting to police / reporting to Consulate / obtaining emergency passport / checking insurance / rebooking flight / by internet / by telephone / by footslog tram taxi uphill downhill / in amazing steephill skyscraperland / of movie memories
2013, Roger Hudson, “San Francisco Dreaming”, in Plaything of the Great God Kafka, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 12
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