exodust
(transitive, US, historical) Of an African-American: to leave a state in the Southern United States as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.
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(transitive, US, historical) Of an African-American: to leave a state in the Southern United States as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.
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