sixth-former

English

Etymology

From sixth form +‎ -er.

Noun

sixth-former (plural sixth-formers)

1. (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.