weirdscape

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noun

A bizarre place or atmosphere.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounweirdscape (plural weirdscapes)

plural weirdscapes

  1. A bizarre place or atmosphere.

    But sixty-plus middle-aged women dangling from ape-hanger handlebars, their modified Hogs parked along the town's half-mile drag, make for an unexpected, discombobulating weirdscape.

    2007, Don Waters, Desert Gothic, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 141
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    You need a four-wheel-drive to get to the old Zero Meridian monument through a boulder-strewn, euphorbia-covered weirdscape and tiny craters called hornitos (little ovens), via the Orchilla lighthouse where the first man crossed the island.

    2007 May 6, Marion Bull, “Journey to the Edge of the World”, in Daily Mail

    Zawinski was one of the founders of Netscape, “the first web browser that mattered”, and is often touted as an example of a techie who has worked to keep San Francisco’s vaudevillian weirdscape alive and dancing, rather than just getting out with his pile.

    2014 April 9, Laurie Penny, “A tale of two cities: how San Francisco's tech boom is widening the gap between rich and poor”, in New Statesman

Origin

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APA

weirdscape. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weirdscape

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“weirdscape.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weirdscape. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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