Verb-
from Casper the Friendly Ghost-
To make something easy to understand and comfortable(i.e., transparent and friendly) that would otherwise be difficult and scary.
Making General Relativity easy to understand by dressing up like Einstein and providing very simple and tangible examples. "I wish someone could Casperize calculus for me; I have some kind of mental block against understanding it".
the act of being sucked into a mission or endeavor wherein you are asked to go above and beyond any reasonable means of effort to carry out a random task for the purpose of assisting someone complete or finish his errand, job, duty, or chore in advancement of his personal gain. These missions/jobs/chores/errands/tasks generally involve several side missions, financial hardships, detours and more often than not take twice as long as proposed and include various parties.
I was capperized into helping move the sailboat up the river to be safe from the storm.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.