mowstatus
/ˈməʊˌstætəs/nounVerified NewLawn maintenance performed as a signal of diligence to neighbors rather than for any use the grass serves.
The stripes are for the street; the height is calibrated to the household two doors down; the schedule outlasts any pleasure in mowing. Mowstatus is suburbia's most legible status symbol precisely because it is planted and cannot lie about effort. Droughts test it, and most households pay the water bill.
Etym. — mow + status — display work, grown from seed.
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