essenomize
verb
To use a proper name to refer to a behavior or trait, thereby associating it with the named entity.
“It was a really tense situation, so I pulled a Kiku and that helped a lot."
“Wait, you what?"
“Oh! Kiku! Sorry, I didn’t see you there. Uh, yeah, so, pulling a Kiku is making a dumb joke just to get people to laugh."
“…hmm. Okay. I can think of worse things to be essenomized about.”