publands

English

Etymology

Sense 1: short for public lands. Sense 2: pub + lands.

Noun

publands pl (plural only)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (US) Areas of public land on which it is possible to hike, etc.
2. Land with many pubs.
   • 1976, Soundings, volume 3, page 72:

     warn the young — / keep from the publands in the port / or into sewerage you'll be flung.

   • 1985, Roger Omond, The Apartheid Handbook:

     Part love story, part thriller, and set in the publands of London's Earls Court, […]

   • 2007, John Harding, Patrick Hamilton: His Life and Work : a Critical Study, page 46:

     […] publands of Earls Court , Hangover Square's protagonist , semi - alcoholic George Harvey Bone ,