Jamaicanize

present singular third person Jamaicanizes · participle present Jamaicanizing · participle past Jamaicanized · past Jamaicanized

1. to make Jamaican.

   Barclays Bank is the fourth foreign owned bank to Jamaicanize its operations.

   1973, Caribbean and Central American Letter

   2 more examples

   And then I decided it was time for me to come home and to bring all that experience and to Jamaicanize it and I said if I come home I really want to promote art.

   2001, Cari Lee Borja, Jamaican Art Worlds: Encounters, Transformations and Metamorphoses

   Today, Jamaican is spoken by about five million people, who manage to preserve it thanks to their ability to Jamaicanize English words and a positive attitude towards neologisms.

   2017, Roberto Masone, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Dismantling of the English Norm, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 82