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Californicate (third-person singular simple present Californicates, present participle Californicating, simple past and past participle Californicated)

1. (US, derogatory, transitive) To subject to Californication, the large-scale development of land.
   • 1978, Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner, “Rocky Mountain Country”, in The Atlantic‎:

     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.

   • 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:

     Don't Californicate Nevada. Give wilderness a chance.

   • 2012 [2001], Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 65:

     Many longtime residents strongly oppose the extremism of the newcomers, sporting bumper stickers that say, “Don't Californicate Colorado.”

アナグラム

• calorifacient