Meanings
nounsixth-former (plural sixth-formers)
plural sixth-formers
- AustraliaUKA pupil in the sixth form.
[T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37
Origin
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