Hoosierize

present singular third person Hoosierizes · participle present Hoosierizing · participle past Hoosierized · past Hoosierized

1. transitiveTo adapt to the norms of the Hoosiers.

   Now Pledge to Hoosierize Your Kitchen

   1918 January 5, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 190, number 3, page 78

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   He made a few marginal attempts in pencil to modernize and Hoosierize the phrasing reached the middle, and blew up.

   1941 August 28, Booth Tarkington, “Part One: As I Seem to Me”, in Jeremy Beer, editor, America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928, Wipf & Stock Publishers, published 2015, →ISBN, page 103

   You don’t de-Hoosierize a Hoosier by setting him down in Wall Street or La Salle Street or Champs Elysees. Most likely, he will Hoosierize the street.

   1954 February 2, E. Ross Adair, “Hoosiers Everywhere”, in Congressional Record, page A762