Gradualate

To take longer than the accustomed time to graduate from school (gradually graduate) - either from being held back or taking less than the recommended credit courses. i.e. taking 6 years to go through high school or get a B.A. drgree.

Todd is only taking 6 semester hours this term. At that rate, he should gradualate in about 8 years.

by debodun March 16, 2009

Congrats on Your Gradulations

A message of over enthusiastic, usually alcohol fueled, well wishes when you are trying to over compensate with your Big Guy Energy, while doing your best to relate to someone much younger and more hip than yourself.

Drunk Golf Fan: Hey there fellow hip youngster! Hope you are having as much fun today as we are!

22yr old cashier: Not really.. This is just a side job because I graduate from college in the Fall.

Drunk Golf Fan: Oh wow! Well, uh, Congrats on Your Gradulations!

22yr old cashier: Yeah…. Thanks..

by Falcon Thunder Fist June 23, 2021

gradutate

To blow chunks at one's graduation, usually from consuming too much alcohol prior to the event.

It was quite a graduation regurgitation. The valedictorian gradutated all over the stage.

by Cuntoleezza Rice January 31, 2007

graduate student

A young adult whose number one motivating factor is free food.

Marissa, a graduate student, just attended a pointless workshop on conflict resolution just because there was free pizza there.

by Carla Cat October 29, 2013

grodalated

Of a corrupted or foul nature, characterized by an odor of decomposition or rank curdling.

"He cleans the sink every day with a grodalated old sponge that smells like a cesspool."

by triumvir March 24, 2006

gradulate

To congratulate someone when you have little to no knowledge of their accomplishments. Or their names. Or English.

I'd like to gradulate the Florida Gators, Corch Urban Meyers, Percy Harveys, and the athletic school on winning a championship in the BCS Playoffs.

by Tom Quisan March 20, 2009

graduate student

One who chooses to add to the breadth of their education by embarking upon a program that may award him/her a master's degree, a Ph.D, or no degree at all. While this decision may, under very particular circumstances, lead to a position as a tenured professor in a university, it will most likely lead to a decade or more of delaying the individual's entry to what most people would call the "real" world. Becoming a graduate student allows one to enter the self-perpetuating institution of academia.

Ex. 1
Typical sign in a physical sciences laboratory: "Do not feed graduate students and other lab animals."

Ex. 2
Grad student: "I'm writing a thesis on the remnants of Victorian culture in modern stereotypes of Transylvania."

Friend: "What are you going to use that for?"

Grad student: "I hope to become an English professor because if I'm lucky, I may one day out-earn high school teachers."

by academicbubble January 7, 2012