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Californicate en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from Californication.

Meanings

1. (US, derogatory, transitive) To subject to Californication, the large-scale development of land.
   • Don't Californicate Nevada. Give wilderness a chance. 1986, Robert W. Maichle, on behalf of the Motorcycle Racing Association of Nevada, Nevada Wilderness Act of 1985, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 832:
   • Many longtime residents strongly oppose the extremism of the newcomers, sporting bumper stickers that say, “Don't Californicate Colorado.” 2012 [2001], Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 65:
   • Squeezing ... cars off ... is unlikely to do ... any good[.] In Utah we see no bumper stickers reading DON’T CALIFORNICATE UTAH. Utah is busy Californicating itself. 1978, Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner, “Rocky Mountain Country”, in The Atlantic:

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