schoolkid

noun

school·​kid ˈskül-ˌkid How to pronounce schoolkid (audio)
: a child or teenager attending school

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In the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium, a group of schoolkids passed by him in a frenzy. Eric Lach, New Yorker, 25 June 2025 Go into its gang-run projects, offer the shot callers something of value, and ask for their assistance making the streets safer for schoolkids and grandmas, their own included. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025 The other day, amid throngs of schoolkids, a septuagenarian woman with a puff of gray hair, in a black turtleneck and pearl earrings, stepped into the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 9 June 2025 The mothers of those schoolkids did call CSP, telling them of pistols hidden in bushes and older sons prepping for first kills. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for schoolkid

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of schoolkid was in 1934

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“Schoolkid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolkid. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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