lawn, n.Definitions

A Lawn is the passion of suburbanites.

A Lawn grows by inches and dies by feet.

A Lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

The Lawn is the pride of suburbia.

The Lawn is the natural house-to-house carpeting, available only in a single shade of green.

The Lawn is impossible to keep clear of crabgrass. The stuff can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

The Lawn must be trimmed weekly unless the owner intends to grow a miniature prairie, which supports a multitude of wildlife and billows wonderfully in the wind, but tends to incite class-action lawsuits by one's less imaginative neighbors.

A Lawn is a patch of manicured grass that you can only get a boy to stay off by asking him to mow it.