spacescraper

plural spacescrapers

1. literatureA building that is tall enough to reach outer space.

   The biggest one packed enough punch to blow through a spacescraper all the way to the basement.

   2014, Michael McCloskey, The Trilisk Revolution

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   Spacescraper city on the outskirts of New York–five miles square with nine buildings, each exactly one mile from the next, each a mile square, three miles high, 1,000 stories, 1,000 people per floor, a million folk behind its walls, nine million ...

   2003, Arthur Herzog, Make Us Happy

   The ultimate game of belief is an unstoppable intonation. A word that spells the end of Jack and Susie. Twenty-eight missiles into a corporate spacescraper.

   2012, John Trevillian, Forever A-Men

   It showed the lights of a city at night, viewed from great height, as if the room were the penthouse suite of a spacescraper. A huge black bed dominated the far wall. It was only a foot off the floor. "Amazing!" Arakaki exclaimed.

   2013, Michael McCloskey, The Trilisk Hunt