Carterize
To make like former US president Jimmy Carter.
Verb
- To make like former US president Jimmy Carter.
- The latest evidence of an executive branch apparently determined to Carterize itself comes in the waffling over gasoline lead regulations. - 1982, Commercial West, volume 163, numbers 1-13, page 8:
- Ronald Reagan, already under attack from news hounds and political commentators as being overly simple in his approach to everything, deftly avoided all their efforts to "Carterize" him and his Christian beliefs and...
- It would seem to me we'd be Carterizing Reagan policy. - 1998, Rick Ball, Meet the Press: Fifty Years of History in the Making, page 153:
Origin
From Carter + -ize.