Pullmanize

P3U1L1L1M3A1N1I1Z10E1

verb

To adapt (a vehicle or a place) to allow for sleeping.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

verbPullmanize (third-person singular simple present Pullmanizes, present participle Pullmanizing, simple past and past participle Pullmanized)

present singular third person Pullmanizes · participle present Pullmanizing · participle past Pullmanized · past Pullmanized

  1. datedtransitiveTo adapt (a vehicle or a place) to allow for sleeping.

    We traveled by coach, meaning we had to sleep sitting up. We took care of that by dismantling the seats and "pullmanizing" our quarters so just about every player had a comfortable seat to sleep on.

    2004, Walter Bell, Return to Glory Hole
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    Many people in traveling south have the front seat-backs of their autos cut down in such a manner that they can sleep right in the car. This pullmanizing idea is a good one and I have run across some bright ideas in this line. Where there are four in a party, or five, I have seen a regular auto tent combined with the sleeping-in-the-car proposition: […]

    1928, Forest and Stream, volume 98, page 502

Origin

From Pullman + -ize, in reference to the luxurious rail carriages whose seats could be converted into beds.

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