Californication
noun/ˌkælɪˈfɔːnɪˈkeɪʃən/UK/ˌkælɪˈfɔɹnɪˈkeɪʃən/US
Etymology
From Californ(ia) + -ication. First use appears c. 1947. Especially popularized by the use as title for a song (1999) and a TV series (2007–2014). Some folk interpretations often rebracket it as Cali + fornication for humorous or derogatory effect.
- derived from خَلِيفَة
Definitions
The adoption of practices and beliefs associated with California, in particular Hollywood…
The adoption of practices and beliefs associated with California, in particular Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
- Isaac was pictured as the only male in the state who could satisfy his many succubi, and the Californication took place on his couch in City Hall, in the Temple, in saloons, in his carriage, in his home, oh, just anywhere.
- Indeed, if popular culture can be said to be dispersed in a process of global Californication, then no less should intellectual culture be seen as the product of the Routledgification of the world[.]
- A teenage bride with a baby inside getting high on information / And buy me a star on the boulevard, it's Californication
The large-scale development of land
The large-scale development of land; urban sprawl.
- It's also culturally unique, its natives resisting many elements of "californication", the "glintzy" urban sprawl typified by Los Angeles.
- If the intermountain West, from New Mexico to Montana, is today running scared of growth and Californication, the Great Plains is a large slice of the West that does not share that particular fear.
The neighborhood
- neighborCalifornianization
- neighborCalifornicate
- neighborMexifornication
- neighborLos Angelization
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Californication. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA