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单词 grass castle
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Definition of grass castle in English:

grass castle

noun
Australian
  • 1A grand property owned by a wealthy pastoralist.

    beef barons flourishing in grass castles
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After fleeing the Irish famine, the family became 'kings in grass castles' as the first of Australia's great cattle kings.
    • For all the talk of the country once riding on the sheep's back, or beef barons flourishing in grass castles, visitors will discover that Queensland was always, at heart, a nanny state.
    • My childhood was cradled in a grass castle on a large holding in a country cleared and fenced in square miles.
    • Regional lands remained locked away in the grip of the giant pastoral companies and kings in grass castles.
    • So my esteemed future father-in-law is now aiming to be a king in his own grass castle, is he?"
    • He immediately censored the press, and told old Mac to get the hell back to his grass castle, and possibly many other words unrecorded by his secretary.
    • Contrary to what bourgeois propagandists would have you believe, the outback of this country was not developed by kings in grass castles.
    • Here was the vision splendid: Buchanan's grass castle.
    • There have been a lot of kings in grass castles since, but none to equal the scope of these two.
    • Australia's cattle pioneers became known as kings in grass castles.
  • 2A luxurious home paid for with the proceeds of trade in cannabis.

    the grass castles which the mafia built from their drug earnings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most people are aware that outlawing the cultivation, the selling, and the using of marijuana has resulted in grass castles, gang wars, and murders.
    • He disliked being called an anti-drugs campaigner, but he did want to expose those who lived in grass castles on the tiny farming blocks whose mysterious profits were corrupting his town.
    • The next day, we were driven past some impressive houses that the police described as grass castles.
    • He was one of four crims who sat inside his grass castle to discuss the affect Mackay's anti-drug stance was having on their flourishing marijuana business.
    • He reported on the activities of the mafia and the grass castles which they built from their drug earnings.
    • I interviewed him two days before he disappeared (presumably at the hands of drug lords), and it was the first time I heard the term 'grass castles'.
    • She would be punished like a gangster for her ­alleged role in a scheme which police say saw the jobless couple buy their own $1.1 million grass castle on the Gold Coast.
    • The town is still dotted with the many luxurious grass castles the criminals built with the proceeds of the drug trade.
    • A number of those he had named, or who lived in grass castles, had particularly good alibis for the night he disappeared.
    • Although they joked about the grass castles being built for the marijuana growers to live in, they were genuinely concerned.

Origin

1950s: sense 1 derives from the title of Mary Durack's 1959 work Kings in Grass Castles; sense 2 is from grass in the sense 'cannabis'.

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