exodust

Back-formation from exoduster.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛksəʊdʌst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛksoʊˌdʌst/
• Hyphenation: ex‧o‧dust

exodust (third-person singular simple present exodusts, present participle exodusting, simple past and past participle exodusted)

1. (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.

• 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.

• exodus
• exoduster