beemo
n.— «Neither dictionary mentions “beemo,” the mildly pejorative word for a zealous student that haunted my 1970s childhood in central Massachusetts.» —“Pixies, Sheilas, Dirtbags and Cougar Bait: Modern Slang” by Caleb Crain Nation Dec. 10, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital is a sensuous, exhilarating meditation about the strangeness of life on a space station, with its mix of tedious tasks and jaw-dropping views. And: a musician who rode the rails in his youth shares the slang he...
Steve, a singer-songwriter from Rock Springs, Wyoming, shares some slang he picked up while months riding the rails and busking. Spanging refers to panhandling, from asking for “spare change.” The term bull refers to a type of security...
A similar term I used growing up in New Jersey in the 1970’s was “Bomar”… this came from a high-end calculator of the time called a Bomar Brain, so the term denoted a brainiac of a kid. BTW, I didn’t find “Bomar” in this dictionary, so I may need to add it.