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n. (context US English) a junior or senior student in a school or college
Usage examples of "upperclassman".
Some of the littler kids who take their showers after the upperclassmen are hanging around listening.
Mark's School to assign first formers (freshmen) to share rooms with upperclassmen, the notion apparently being that the older boys could look out for, and set an example for, younger ones.
The sort of hazing by upperclassmen which was the norm in some military academies was strictly prohibited in the Star Kingdom, but the level of discipline demanded, the workloads assigned, and the energy with which instructors and senior midshipmen .
The sort of hazing by upperclassmen which was the norm in some military academies was strictly prohibited in the Star Kingdom, but the level of discipline demanded, the workloads assigned, and the energy with which instructors and senior midshipmen .
The upperclassman cadets picked up their cups of sassafras tea and leaned over it.
And walking confidently through all the tentativeness from the plebes were the upperclassmen, the degree of swagger directly proportional to what year they were in in the program.
He looked more the worse for wear than did Calhoun, which was surprising considering that Calhoun had been under a pile of upperclassmen who were endeavoring to pummel him.
Any number of upperclassmen would have been concerned solely about covering their own asses.
He's starting to suspect that some upperclassmen are referring to him behind his back as Anton ('Booger') Doucette.
They were a bit overofficered, even without all the cadets' instructors on board, and she'd suspended the practice of having upperclassmen stand watches for now.
They were eating heartily, smiling meaninglessly at equally uncomprehending smiles from their neighbors, and drinking very lightly, with the upperclassmen keeping a watchful eye.
He ran straight into a line of tall upperclassmen, trying to get to the stage.
The process was consciously aimed at weeding out the weak as early as possible, and so it was largely in the hands of upperclassmen who had only recently been through the same thing.