Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context education English) A school for children that have completed elementary school or grade school, but are not yet old enough for high school. In the US, it often includes grades 6 or 7 through 9.
WordNet
n. a secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades [syn: junior high]
Wikipedia
Junior High School is a 1978 musical featurette starring P. David Ebersole as Jerry Sanders. The film chronicles the first day of term at a dramatized school of seventh and eighth graders, and consists of seven songs along with several dance numbers. The only member of the cast to become well-known later is Paula Abdul, though she played a relatively minor role in the film.
Usage examples of "junior high school".
I was flying navy airplanes and scaring myself silly coming aboard while you were still in junior high school.
We would often brag to each other about our sexual prowess, a juvenile, junior high school kind of exaggeration.
Ahriman the elder, Josh, had been dead of petits-fours poisoning when this lad had still been failing math, history, and assorted other courses in junior high school, so the two had never worked together.
Even David Johndrow, an old junior high school friend of Kevin's who came from California to stay with the Booths for the whole summer, wasn't welcome.
Botte came to my memorial fas, may I add, did almost the entire junior high school—.
Sometimes they only join sororities and continue with the same sweet dream that began in junior high school, a dream so common to the pretty smalltown virgins that it almost could have been cut from a Simplicity pattern, like a jumper or a Your Yummy Summer blouse or play skirt.
It will always be junior high school and quarter of three, they will always be walking up Kansas Street together to play basketball in Jonesy's driveway (Pete also has a hoop in his driveway but they like Jonesy's better because his father has posted it low enough so you can dunk), talking about the same old things: classes and teachers and which kid got into a fuckin pisser with which kid, or which kid is going to get into a fuckin pisser with which kid, whether or not so-and-so could take so-and-so if they got into a fuckin pisser .
At that point I'd call your junior high school chums as character witnesses, if I could find them.
Theyll be too busy looking for those junior high school girls for the time being.