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follow verb To engage in (a pursuit, custom, profession, or trade) as a practice; to have (a habit or tendency for) (usually followed by a verbal noun). [DARE labels this term “chiefly South Midland”]
1864 Chapman CW Letters (Feb 13) let me no what you follow for past time. 1939 Hall Coll (Waynesville NC) We’ve been following this line of music for something like four or five years. 1940 Bowman KY Mt Stories 239 follers the Law = studies the law or is an officer. 1985 Irwin Alex Stewart 103 He lived on the river and followed fishing and he made his own boats. 2007 McMillon Notes = to have a habit, occupation, or hobby: “I follered sangin’ [=singing] ‘bout all my life.”