WASPize

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verb

To become or make more WASPy

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Meanings

verbWASPize (third-person singular simple present WASPizes, present participle WASPizing, simple past and past participle WASPized)

present singular third person WASPizes · participle present WASPizing · participle past WASPized · past WASPized

  1. To become or make more WASPy

    Usually famous people, or those on the road to fame, adopt new names not so that they will stand out, but so that they will blend in. Americanizing or WASPizing one's name is familiar to us all. In fact, I am quite proud when an entertainer keeps her/his original hard-to-pronounce name.

    1980 April 5, Cindy Rizzo, “Coming Out - Again”, in Gay Community News, page 5
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APA

WASPize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/WASPize

MLA

“WASPize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/WASPize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “WASPize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/WASPize.

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