Etymology

debigulate

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Today it means: To reduce or shrink; to make or become smaller. Full definition →

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The story

Back-formation from Debigulator, itself from de- + big + -ule + -ate + -or, a fictional shrink ray featured in the 1996 episode "Treehouse of Horror VII" of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

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