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Californicate
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English
Etymology
en Californication.
Verb
en US derogatory transitive To subject to Californication, the large-scale development of land.
en 1978 Wallace Stegner; Page Stegner Rocky Mountain Country The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1978/04/rocky-mountain-country/663370/ 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20230109220455/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1978/04/rocky-mountain-country/663370/ 9 January 2023
en Robert W. Maichle, on behalf of the Motorcycle Racing Association of Nevada Nevada Wilderness Act of 1985 1986 U.S. Government Printing Office 832 Don't Californicate Nevada. Give wilderness a chance.
en w:Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation 2012 2001 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt https://books.google.com/books?id=dU13X_AM_N8C&pg=PA65&dq=%22Californicate%22&hl=&cd=18&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Californicate%22&f=false 978-0-547-75033-0 65 Many longtime residents strongly oppose the extremism of the newcomers, sporting bumper stickers that say, “Don't Californicate Colorado.”
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