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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crammer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the First Municipal girls' school, students attend crammers for mathematics and science.
▪ But it needed a full-time crammer to get you there and you're still below average.
▪ Competition for places in high status universities is so enormous that after-school attendance at expensive private crammer schools is virtually compulsory.
▪ I therefore went for a term to a crammer, secured the necessary credit and was accepted by Magdalen College.
▪ Undismayed, she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms, and Brian to another preparatory school.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crammer

Crammer \Cram"mer\ (kr[a^]m"m[~e]r), n. One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.
--Dickens.

Wiktionary
crammer

n. 1 A book used for accelerated study in preparation for an exam 2 A student who is studying hard for an exam 3 A teacher who is aiding said student. 4 A school whose speciality is helping students to pass certain exams.

WordNet
crammer
  1. n. a student who crams

  2. a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations

  3. a special school where students are crammed

  4. a textbook designed for cramming

Usage examples of "crammer".

He was talking to Agent Crammer, a ruddy-faced, barrel-chested young man who had a degree in accounting from the University of Pennsylvania.

It made her look too"You look real sharp, Agent Sherlock," Crammer said.

I got a call from Crammer's section supervisor, telling me that Sherlock here had been attacked and that Crammer had stayed outside her hospital room.

He should be packed off at once to the crammer, before you are Lady Patterne.

We must decide something about Crossjay, and get the money for his crammer, if it is to be got.

The school, a cosmopolitan crammer, which was dead now, like Richard's father, who had scrimped to send him there, used to accommodate a staff of twenty-five and over two hundred pupilsan ecology of estrogen and testosterone, bumfluff, flares, fights, fancyings, first loves.

Abruptly the room reminded Richard of the classroom in the crammer he had attended years ago, on Gwyn's street.

If your principle is right, why don't you turn out to-morrow morning with the keys of your cities on velvet cushions, your musicians playing, and your flags flying, and read addresses to the Crammers and Coaches on your bended knees, beseeching them to come out and govern you?

He was educated in Britain, Spain and the USA, attending over thirteen schools and then a series of crammers in London and Brighton.

Take General Binks or Colonel Snooks, true-blue military muttonheads, brave as bedamned, athirst for glory, doing their dutiful asinine bit in half a dozen campaigns, but never truly catching the public eye, and at last selling out and retiring from obscurity to Cheltenham with a couple of wounds and barely enough to pay the club subscription, foot the memsahib's whist bill, send Adolphus to a crammer 'cos the Wellington fees are beyond them, and afford a drunken loafer to neglect the garden of Ramilles or Quatre Bras or whatever they choose to call their infernal villas.