The Only Use of
migrate
in
The Nickel Boys
- Free world was prison slang, but it had migrated to the reformatory school because it made sense, transmitted through a boy who'd heard it from a hard-luck father or uncle, or from a staff member revealing how he really felt about his charges, despite the school vocabulary Nickel liked to use for itself.†
p. 88.5migrated = moved from one place to another
Definitions:
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(1)
(migrate) move from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus