Education Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Entries in the Category Education

Education, elementary, middle, secondary schools; universities, colleges, teachers, students, etc. You can also see citations assigned to this category.

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boohoo breakfast n. a gathering intended to ease the separation of parents and children on the first day of school. (posted Aug. 22, 2007) [full entry…]

dance of the lemons n. the repeated reassignment of bad teachers to different classes or schools. (posted Oct. 7, 2005) [full entry…]

double-f school n. a school which has received two failing grades from state agencies in four years, permitting its students a choice of attending other, better schools. (posted May. 1, 2004) [full entry…]

five and fly n. (baseball) a five-inning pitching performance followed by a withdrawal (in order to qualify as the winning pitcher without finishing the game); (military academies) combined education and service lasting no more than the required five years. (posted May. 31, 2006) [full entry…]

learning cottage n. a residential trailer (British ‘caravan’; American ‘mobile home’) used as a temporary or portable classroom. (posted Dec. 14, 2004) [full entry…]

looping n. in the American education system, the practice of one teacher educating the same students through more than one school year, as opposed to the students having a different teacher each year. (posted Dec. 19, 2005) [full entry…]

matchbook college n. a (real or figurative) school of higher learning with low academic standards. (posted Nov. 22, 2004) [full entry…]

redshirt v. to hold a child back for an extra year before admittance into kindergarten. (posted Jun. 4, 2007) [full entry…]

shmen n. a (college or university) freshman. Also plural. (posted Sep. 14, 2004) [full entry…]

sidewalk alumni n.pl. fans of a sports team from a school or college they never attended or have no direct ties to. (posted Sep. 5, 2007) [full entry…]

suitcase college n. a non-residential institution of higher education; a commuter campus. (posted Oct. 3, 2005) [full entry…]

summer melt n. a reduction in the number of students who enroll at a specific college or university in the autumn, as compared to those who earlier in the year confirmed they would attend. Also just melt or, rarely, summer thaw. (posted Jul. 10, 2006) [full entry…]

super senior n. a college student who takes more than four years to graduate. (posted May. 2, 2006) [full entry…]

sweep room n. a place in which tardy students are detained in lieu of sending them to their classes. (posted Oct. 5, 2006) [full entry…]

swirling n. achieving a higher education degree via enrollment at two or more institutions, either simultaneously or consecutively. (posted Aug. 30, 2005) [full entry…]

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