Generica en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /d͡ʒəˈnɛɹɪkə/
Etymology
Blend of generic + America.
Meanings
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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.
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.
1999, Helen Husher, Off the Leash, Countryman Press, →ISBN, pages 20–21: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.
1998, Michael Marshall Smith, One of Us, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 48: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.”
1994 November 3, Amy Satterthwaite, “In Their Own Words”, in The Free Lance-Star: