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graduate verb- to complete a prison sentence US
A construction built on the jocular “college” as “jail”. - — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 12, 1945
- to be cured of a sexually transmitted infection US
- — American Speech, p. 31, February 1949: “A.V.G. lingo”
- to begin using more powerful drugs, or to stop taking drugs completely US
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 155, 1992
- (used of a racehorse) to win a race for the first time US
- — Tom Ainslie, Ainslie’s Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing, p. 332, 1976
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