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means A short, casual clip of 'graduate' — someone who's finished a degree and is newly licensed to reminisce about it.

from Simply a clipping of the Latin-derived 'graduate,' which traces to gradus, Latin for 'step' — a graduate being someone who has taken the step up and out. The shortened 'grad' is pure informal economy, the kind English does to any word it uses often enough to get tired of fully pronouncing.

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comes with a loan balance, free of charge
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degree issued, employer not included
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starts the day the exams stop
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