Martinize

English

Etymology

From Martin +‎ -ize.

Verb

Martinize (third-person singular simple present Martinizes, present participle Martinizing, simple past and past participle Martinized)

  1. To clean using the Martinizing dry-cleaning process
    • 2010 September 23, Tina Fey, “The Fabian Strategy” (3:26 from the start), in 30 Rock[1], season 5, episode 1, spoken by Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan):
      “Hey, K-K-K-K. First day back's gonna be a busy one. First, I need you to go to the dry cleaners for me and find out how Martinizing works. I've always been curious. Then I need you to be back by noon to make the bathroom smell like sandalwood before I wreck it. You got that, K-PAX-O-Gum?” “I'm not Kenneth, sir. My name's Brian. Kenneth got fired at the end of last season.” “Of course. I knew that.”
  2. (biochemistry) To produce a coarse-grain structure of a protein topology