What is "mcmansion"

In suburban communities, McMansion is a pejorative term for a "mass-produced mansion".

An example of a McWord, "McMansion" associates the generic quality of these luxury homes with that of mass-produced fast food by evoking the McDonald's restaurant chain.

The neologism "McMansion" seems to have been coined sometime in the early 1980s. It appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and the New York Times in 1998. Related terms include "Persian palace", " garage Mahal", "starter castle", and " Hummer house". Marketing parlance often uses the term "tract mansions" or executive homes.