Meaning of sixie | Babel Free

Definitions

A seventh-grader at Boston Latin School.

Examples

“Elena went on to Boston Latin alone, and Genette got into a crowd in her middle school. Even though Elena was in seventh grade, at Boston Latin she was called a sixie, and they were the bottom of the heap.”

“We can hum the "1812 Overture" (complete⟳ with howitzer) from memory, we've got streets named after Mendelssohn and Liszt, and we knew Lenny Bernstein when he was a sixie at Latin.”

“I'm particularly aware of Boston State because when I was a sixie (seventh grader) at Boston Latin in the Fall⟳ of 1983, the sign⟳ on the building of the old Boston State was around the corner from BLS.”

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