super senior

super senior
 n.— «His friend, David Alvarez, is a fifth-year senior—a “super senior,” he says—at Montclair.» —“Today’s College Students Taking Longer To Graduate” by Pat Alex Record (New Jersey) Sept. 3, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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