earthscraper
noun/ˈɝθˌskɹeɪp.ɚ/US/ɜːθˈskɹeɪp.ə(ɹ)/UK
Etymology
Definitions
A building that is built underground
A building that is built underground; a subterranean skyscraper.
- By Vox! We went down all right. Spacious rooms were here piled one upon another connected by wide staircases. This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.
- So then I dreamed up a subterranean skyscraper (or,if you will, an earthscraper) with various floors, each of them constituting a different infernal abode;
- The earthscraper burst from the tunnel into daylight, sparks trailing. Elara turned hard against the wheel, corrected itstrajectory and spun one hundred and eighty degrees into a brigade of sentinels their weapons drawn.
Synonym of bellyscraper (“a piece of heavy equipment”).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for earthscraper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA