cloudscraper

A very tall building; a skyscraper.

Noun

  1. A very tall building; a skyscraper.
    • Milord Lucyd's cloudscraper, the Villa de Reve: Traitor. Regim crouched behind the garden wall of the aetherist's cloudscraper and watched him approach. - 1999, Lisa Mason, Pangaea: Imperium Without End:
    • Hogg turned to look at Daniel. "Lad," he said quietly, "I didn't try to wrap you in gauze, you know that. But I wouldn't have let you try to fly from the top of a cloudscraper pine either." "Now, it's not as bad as...
    • The journey was soon over, as the car broke away from the main route, and turned towards the nearest cloudscraper. - 2016, Alexander Lawes, Ring of Stones: Portal to Another World:

Origin

From cloud + -scraper.

Forms

cloudscrapers