Aspenize

Aspenize
 v.— «People say they don’t want to Aspenize the county, pricing our workers and the natives out.» —“Resettlement Of West Lures New Pioneers” by Kevin McCullen Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado) Mar. 21, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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