Murican style
- noun
- /ˈmʌrɪkən staɪl/
- Slang
:
estilo muricano
- The barbecue featured burgers, hot dogs, and plenty of soda in full Murican style.
Examples
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His outfit—complete with cowboy boots and a flag bandana—was pure Murican style.
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She decorated her house in true Murican style for the party.
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I love the Murican style of decorating with flags and eagles.
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Her house is full of Murican style memorabilia!
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His outfit—complete with cowboy boots and a flag bandana—was pure Murican style.
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The barbecue featured burgers, hot dogs, and plenty of soda in full Murican style.
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She decorated her house in true Murican style for the party.
Synonyms
A joking way to show strong American pride, for example with flags and eagles
Surface Forms
Morphology
Murican + style
The noun 'style' combined with the nonce slang 'Murican' yields a meaning close to 'American style', so a learner who knows 'Murican' as a clipped form of 'American' can infer the basic compositional sense. However, 'Murican' is colloquial/slang with an attitudinal, stereotypical or exaggerated meaning that is not fully predictable from its parts, so the pragmatic nuance requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Murican style may come from a joking, shortened way of saying 'American'; people say Murican as if with a strong accent to make the idea sound bigger and louder. So Murican style means an over-the-top American look or way, using things like burgers, big flags, cowboy boots and loud decorations.
