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Citify

verb, slang

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To become more like or more in the character of a city. informal, intransitive

    "The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying" and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing.""

  2. 2
    accustom to urban ways wordnet
  3. 3
    To make more like or more in the character of a city. slang, transitive

    "Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers."

  4. 4
    To make more like a city person. informal, transitive

    "We may be clothed, citified, and civilized, but we carry deep within us the genetic patterns of behavior that served our ancestor, the "killer ape.""

Etymology

From city + -fy.

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