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English
Etymology
Blend of generic + America.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Generica
- Features of the landscape such as fire hydrants, letterboxes, fast-food chains, streets called "Main", etc., that are the same throughout the United States.
1994 November 3, Amy Satterthwaite, “In Their Own Words”, in The Free Lance-Star:Chandler commanded a spotlight at the far end of the stage at Picker’s Supply Concert Hall downtown last Friday night. There, he was loudly ranting about a commercial wasteland he called the “United States of Generica.”
1998, Michael Marshall Smith, One of Us, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 48:The valley areas are split up into regular grids of stores and restaurants, and you're never more than a five-minute drive from a Starbucks or Borders or Baby Gap, the building blocks of Generica.
1999, Helen Husher, Off the Leash, Countryman Press, →ISBN, pages 20–21:It is generica that plagues the outskirts of every medium-sized city with its strip malls and fast-food stops and traffic lights; it is generica that always persuades me to drive off quite confidently in the wrong direction.
References
- Paul McFedries (1996 December 8) “Generica”, in Word Spy, Logophilia Limited, retrieved 4 June 2017.
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