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English
Etymology
Back-formation from Californication.
Verb
Californicate (third-person singular simple present Californicates, present participle Californicating, simple past and past participle Californicated)
- (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 , 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.”
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