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Whoever compiled this list was definitely NOT from the 70's! I graduated from high school in 1975 and my husband from 1973 and we both agree that many of these terms were from the 80's and 90's....also, someone should try spell check! 'your' and you're' are two different animals
a youngster who has graduated in the school of winter experience thus: himself not knowing how severely frost could freeze and whiten his nose, his companions kept him in ignorance till he suffered the ordeal “unknowest.â€Â They enjoyed the joke at his expense, and surprised him by applying snow to the part. Then, with a clap on the back, told him he was a youngster no more but a whitenose
progress to stronger drugs
n cat. Implies a cat marginally more streetwise than your average “kitty.” A cat which has graduated from the university of life, if you will.
completely stop using drugs
I graduated in '83 and we used to say it was nice rappin' with ya which meant it was nice talking to you. My father thought I was wrapping presents with my friends!! notyet
A Royal Military College graduate.
One of the first Gay magazine. the October 1954 issue of ONE magazine was withheld by the postmaster as "obscene, lewd, lascivious and filthy," the publishers, ONE, Inc., fought their case successfully all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1981 the state of California granted ONE,Inc. the right to operate as an accredited graduate school, students can earned the degree of Ph.D. in homosexual studies.
Paper wads chewed up into an icky mass. Kids would usually use the body of an ink pen with the ink cartridge removed to shoot them like blowguns at each other, or even better, at the back of a teacher's head. Whatver they hit, they stuck to like glue. The bathrooms were covered with similar but much larger paper wads made from wetting balls of toilet tissue and casting it at the ceilings, hoping it would stick. The contributor graduated High School in 1980 and I'm sure they were doing it long before then... there are references to "pea shooters" from over a hundred years ago, which were hollow tubes you blew peas or spit balls through. (ed: I used them to shoot 'pigeon peas' through - I wish I'd known about spit balls!)
Completely stop using drugs; progress to stronger drugs
The Navy Fighter Weapons School, a graduate school for fighter pilots. Its universal nickname is Topgun.
Reference by the upstanding erudite cadets and graduates of the elit Royal Military College Duntroon in Canberra Australia, to their poor relations from the Officer Cadet Schoole Portsea, near Melbourne. OCS graduates wore one "pip" as second lieutenants compared to their RMC counterpatrs who wore two "pips" as they had graduated with degrees. Hence the OCS graduate had "dropped" a pip, but in any case a suitable reference to the rather dreary and worthy OCS type.
n alley-cat. Implies a cat marginally more streetwise than your average “kitty.” A cat which has graduated from the university of life, if you will.
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v. i.
To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
n.
An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.
n.
State of being a graduate.
v. i.
To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
n.
To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.
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A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
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An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
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An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, and the like.
n. & v.
Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
n.
The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
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To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.
v. t.
A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
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A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards.
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A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
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A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.
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A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
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Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
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A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
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A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.
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