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Generica
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generica genérica genèrica
English
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Etymology
en generic America.
Pronunciation
en /d͡ʒəˈnɛɹɪkə/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Generica.wav Southern England
Proper noun
The features of the landscape such as fire hydrants, letterboxes, fast-food chains, and streets named Main, etc., that are the same throughout the United States.
en November 3 1994 Amy Satterthwaite In Their Own Words 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.”
en w:Michael Marshall Smith One of Us 1998 Bantam Books New York 48 https://archive.org/details/oneofus00smit/page/48/mode/1up 978-0-553-10605-3 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.
en Helen Husher Off the Leash 1999 Countryman Press http://archive.org/details/offleashsubversi00hush 978-0-88150-427-9 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
http://wordspy.com/index.php?word=generica 8 December 1996 4 June 2017
Anagrams
en aceeginr Carnegie Greecian greeniac
en United States