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."
An ugly tan line across the middle of one's forehead resulting from being outside in the blistering sun for several hours while wearing a graduation cap.
Diane: "What's that discoloration on your forehead?"
Jack: "Oh, this? It's my graduate's tan from my college commencement service. It's like my second diploma. Having this is proof that I'm smart!"
A woman, with incredible game, who seeks out male musicians or other celebs in search of a husband. Her sexual skills and beauty tricks the eye of the celebrity and he falls for the 52 fake-out. Marriage or pregnancy is how she traps men.
She is called a "graduate" because her ability to land a man is beyond extraordinary and she has been passed around the entertainment and professional athletic industries. Graduate groupies have PhDs in making men believe they are marriage material.