super senior

super senior
 n.— «Gore was introduced by a super senior at the University(fifth year student who couldn’t graduate because of lack of classes) who told the Bush/Quayle hecklers that they were at the wrong rally.» —“Al Gore speaks to students on National Student Day” by Daffy Duck Usenet: talk.politics.misc Sept. 19, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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