exodust
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from Exoduster.
Verb[edit]
exodust (third-person singular simple present exodusts, present participle exodusting, simple past and past participle exodusted)
- (US, historical) Of an African-American: To leave a Southern state as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.
Usage notes[edit]
This verb is very rarely found in the forms exodust or exodusts. The participles exodusted and exodusting occur frequently in late 19th-century texts on this topic.