to "graduate college"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Somebody's crazy, because I can't find this widely carped-at
transitive usage in OED.

Nor has it ever been discussed here, except fleetingly.

It's almost impossible to search for in NewspaperArchive.  I do find
it frequently and suddenly in GB starting just after WWII.

JL

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