prepster

English

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English prep
Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā
Old English -estre
Middle English -estere
English -ster
English prepster

    From prep + -ster.

    Noun

    prepster (plural prepsters)

    1. (US) A student at a prep school.
    2. (US) A person who dresses or behaves in a way characteristic of such a student.
      • 2009 January 22, Alan Feuer, “A Place to Groove, Without Being Too Groovy”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 June 2024:
        They are also hugely varied, and on a recent Friday night included hipsters, prepsters, fraternity boys in ball caps, soul men with their entourages, East Side girls in diamonds, Howard University grads and an old man pushing 70 in a navy flannel suit.

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