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graduate 

When you are a drug addict, you start out with small drugs (pot, beer) and "graduate' to higher ones. (cocaine, heroin, LSD)
(assuming junky lives in trailer park, 80% chance)


"Hey mom! I graduated today" (passes out)

"WHERE'S MY FUCKING CIGARETTES"
graduate by Tony Ramone July 31, 2005

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.
graduate student by Carla Cat October 29, 2013

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."
graduate student by academicbubble January 7, 2012

Graduate's Tan 

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!"

Graduate Groupie

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.
Super Head is an example of a Graduate Groupie.
Graduate Groupie by Khari Shabazz November 20, 2010

graduate school 

What you say you did with your 20's/30's when you didn't do anything important or remotely useful but you have to explain now because someone asked
Lobocuda: "Man didn't someone tell me you were in prison back then?"

Tacobooco: "Nope...was in graduate school back then."

Lobocuda: "Ah ok, that's why I simultaneously remember you smelling horrible then but also that I never saw you...strange..."
graduate school by uncle fuckbucket October 23, 2018
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