junior high-schooler

See also: junior-high-schooler, junior high schooler, junior-high schooler, and junior highschooler

English

Noun

junior high-schooler (plural junior high-schoolers)

  1. Alternative form of junior high schooler.
    • 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:
      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).
    • 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:
      We can’t expect from junior high-schoolers what’s sometimes hard for grown-ups.
    • 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:
      As a junior high-schooler who didn’t have access to arthouse cinema, I couldn’t get enough.
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