graduate v.
1. (US prison) to complete one’s sentence.
‘Jargon of the Und.’ in DN V 448: Graduate, To be released from prison after having served the sentence. | ||
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
2. to increase, through knowledge and sophistication, one’s status within the ranks of one’s peers in the streets and the criminal milieu.
Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
3. (drugs) to stop using drugs altogether or to progress to stronger drugs.
Drug Crisis in Spears (1986). | ||
ONDCP Street Terms 11: Graduate — Completely stop using drugs; progress to stronger drugs. |
In phrases
(Aus. und.) educated in a reformatory.
Aus. Sl. Dict. 33: Graduated in the Schools, brought up in the reformatory. |