junior-high-schooler

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

Meanings

nounjunior-high-schooler (plural junior-high-schoolers)

plural junior-high-schoolers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of junior high schooler.

    Miller’s Thrift Basement has a full selection of warm clothing for kindergarten-kids to the junior-high-schoolers!

    1944 August 23, Miller’s Thrift Basement, “Get ready for fall in Miller’s Thrift Basement”, in Shopping Guide, 12th year, number 25, Lincoln, Neb., →OCLC, page 3, column 3
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    Perhaps now he’d had his lesson. Perhaps now he’d be a good boy! Again a Fugitive After Felonious Asault. So they said, and thought, and hoped—never dreaming that “John O’Malley” was giving a song and dance to a 14-year-old junior-high-schooler in an East Kirk St. roller skating rink!

    1939 April 16, Ruth Reynolds, “Their Fantastic Honeymoon Is Over: He’s Slain, She’s in Jail, After Career of Banditry”, in Sunday News, volume 19, number 1, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C7, column 1

    “Three of us, the Dillon brothers and me, literally grew up together as children in Pennsylvania and began playing music together as junior-high-schoolers in the early ‘60s,” [Jonathan] Hutchison recalled.

    2015 March 26, Ariana Kramer, “OCHO throws a party […]”, in Joan Livingston, editor, Tempo: The Arts & Entertainment Magazine of The Taos News, Taos, N.M.: El Crepúsculo, →OCLC, page 32, column 3
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