tr.v. pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, pre·fab·ri·cat·ing, pre·fab·ri·cates 1. To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled.
2. To make up, construct, or develop in an artificial, unoriginal, or stereotypic manner: “[The movie] bears all the tiresome hallmarks of a cult-film wannabe—i.e. movies that try to prefabricate the kind of midnight-movie popularity that usually has to come about organically” (Bob Chipman).