junior high-schooler

plural junior high-schoolers

1. alternativeAlternative form of junior high schooler.

   We can’t expect from junior high-schoolers what’s sometimes hard for grown-ups.

   2023 September 1, Kara Baskin, “A wish list for newly minted parents of teens”, in The Boston Globe, volume 304, number 63, Boston, Mass., →OCLC, page C10, column 5

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   The junior high-schoolers are a World Apart. Everything good is either “swell” or “O. K.” and “wahoo” serves for letting off steam (the definition of “wahoo” is one of the minor mysteries).

   1936 March 15, Dorothy Culbert Lucas, “Teen-Age Styles Make Everything O. K. for the Awkward Age”, in The Nashville Tennessean, volume 30, number 449, Nashville, Tenn., →OCLC, “The Nashville Tennessean Magazine” section (edited by Helen Dahnke), page 11, column 1

   As a junior high-schooler who didn’t have access to arthouse cinema, I couldn’t get enough.

   2025 January 23, James Owen, “Honest & defiant: Filmmaker David Lynch will be missed but his work remains to fascinate viewers”, in Columbia Daily Tribune, volume 124, number 129, Columbia, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7A, column 2