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Definition of grass castle in English: grass castlenoun 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'. |