high-schooler

A form of high schooler — A high school student.

Meanings

nounhigh-schooler (plural high-schoolers)

plural high-schoolers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of high schooler.

    Unlike in past semesters when 3- and 4-year-olds were mixed together, the division helps the high-schoolers see the difference one year makes.

    2025 November 10, Amber South, “Children teach each other at this preschool”, in Public Opinion, volume 157, number 96, Chambersburg, Pa., →OCLC, page 6A, column 6
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    The Hamilton news column of your most worthy paper of the 13th inst. contains an article in reference to the evil practice of flirtation by some of our High School girls, […]

    1873 February 19, a Male Scholar [pseudonym], “Flirting Among the High-Schoolers”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XXXI, number 52, Cincinnati, Oh., published 21 February 1873, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 3

    The normal boys have already commenced practice in foot-ball, and probably the high-schoolers will find it a more difficult matter to conquer, the coming season.

    1873 March 31, “Westfield”, in Springfield Daily Republican, Springfield, Mass., →OCLC, page 2, column 4
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