Skinnyscraper

Quick meaning: Skinnyscraper is a noun meaning (informal) An extremely narrow skyscraper; a pencil tower.

Meaning

(informal) An extremely narrow skyscraper; a pencil tower.

Example Sentences

The city centre-Salford border is set to be home to another 'skinnyscraper' as developers eke out every available slice of land.

For the first time since the Manhattan skinnyscraper called Steinway Tower opened for occupancy a year ago, a full floor in the glassy condominium is available for rent — for $75,000 a month.

The future was the privatisation of the sky and a transfer from corporate power to individual wealth, the visual manifestation of the 0.1 per cent. It was a catwalk of anorexic skinnyscrapers by the equivalents of haute-couture designers — the built manifestations of Tom Wolfe's "social X-rays".

Word Forms

• skinnyscrapers

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