junior highschooler

A form of junior high schooler — A student at a school that includes grades 6, 7 and 8; a preadolescent.

Meanings

nounjunior highschooler (plural junior highschoolers)

plural junior highschoolers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of junior high schooler.

    Seventy-three junior highschoolers played two marches and an overture.

    1926 May 22, “Music Program by Young Folk […]”, in The Enid Morning News, 3 a.m. final edition, 33rd year, Enid, Okla., →OCLC, page 9, columns 4–5
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    Several of last year’s sixth graders are making strong bids for berths on the junior high school team, and a half dozen or more former junior highschoolers will find places on the Maroon eleven this season.

    1928 September 19, “Blackwell Youngsters Learn of Football Early; Fundamentals”, in Blackwell Morning Tribune, volume IX, number 193, Blackwell, Okla., →OCLC, page 7, column 7

    Showing a heavy batting power that shelled three Roosevelt junior highschoolers from the pitching mound, the Capitol Hill Papooses opened the city softball race Thursday with a 9-4 win.

    1936 March 26, “Papooses Scalp Roosevelt Boys”, in Daily Beacon of Capitol Hill, volume 3, number 19, Oklahoma City, Okla., →OCLC, page 8, column 2

    Her killer remake of “Let the Music Play” just might expand her audience beyond the ‘tween market. A little something for the parents who are driving their junior highschoolers to the concerts is never a bad idea.

    2009 August 14, Dan Pavelich, “Nanci Griffith is traditional American music at its best”, in Brian Sharkey, editor, Get Out (Kenosha News), Kenosha, Wis., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 5
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