Meaning & use
grow house
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Meaning
nouncountableinformal
A building or house used secretly for growing marijuana.
Grammar: Countable, so you can say 'a grow house' or 'grow houses'.
Patterns
- a grow house
- run a grow house
Police discovered a grow house in the quiet suburb, full of plants and special lights.
He was arrested for running a grow house out of his basement.
The landlord had no idea the tenants had turned the house into a grow house.
Word forms
| plural | grow houses |
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Common combinations
- run a grow house
- They were accused of running a grow house for several years.
- a suspected grow house
- Officers raided a suspected grow house on the edge of town.
- a grow house operation
- The grow house operation was worth millions.
Synonyms and how they differ
- drug den
- A more general term for any place where illegal drugs are used or sold, not specifically for growing plants.
Word family
Commonly confused: grow house or greenhouse?
grow house vs greenhouse
A greenhouse is a glass building for growing plants legally; a grow house is illegal and used for marijuana.
Practice
What is a grow house?
Choose one answer.
A grow house is specifically a building used to grow marijuana illegally. The other options are not correct: a place for children to grow vegetables is a garden or school plot; a house that expands is not a common term; a flower farm is just a farm.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “grow house”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.