Californicate

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verb

To subject to Californication, the large-scale development of land.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person Californicates · participle present Californicating · participle past Californicated · past Californicated

  1. USderogatorytransitiveTo 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
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    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

    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

Origin

Back-formation from Californication.

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APA

Californicate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Californicate

MLA

“Californicate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Californicate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Californicate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Californicate.

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