"hucksterize" meaning in English

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          "text": "The shopping-mall metaphor is quite self-consciously deployed because, according to Sirius, \"commerce is the ocean information swims in\"; unapologetically libertarian, Mondo 2000 evokes and hucksterizes an elect audience of posthuman youth consumers, cyberbeings of undying pubescence with an unquenchable appetite for commodified prostheses, given to restlessly cruising the electronic mallworlds of information.",
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          "text": "They trigger it, and pander to it, by hucksterizing how Good and Great and The Best we are.",
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