super senior n. a college student who takes more than four years to graduate. Etymological Note: Super as a prefix means “above, over, beyond.” (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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After our conversation about wishing well eggs, a listener from Viroqua, Wisconsin, chimes in with another name for this egg-in-toast dish: UFOs, short for Unidentified Frying Objects. This is part of a complete episode.
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so what do you call a person who takes 10 years to graduate from a bachelor’s degree? I have a couple of super-dupper seniors… I knew they were special!
i quit life