sixth-former
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sixth form + -er.
Noun
[edit]sixth-former (plural sixth-formers)
- (UK, Australia) A pupil in the sixth form.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:
- [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.