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poindexter noun a serious student US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 5, March 1981
- Ohmigod, like Hillary’s brother is like such a total Poindexter he’s skipped two grades. — Mary Corey and Victoria Westermark, Fer Shurr! How to be a Valley Girl, 1982
- It’s facing to ask rents for money, get airmail, or hang around with poindexters. — United Press International, 5 January 1984
- The strongest competition to squid and grimbo as successor term to nerd is dexter, a shortening of poindexter, probably based on a cartoon character. — New York Times Magazine, 22 September 1985
- Imagine the surreal social resonance of watching big southern cops harass a bunch of flannel-wearing Poindexters clutching floppy disks if they were beeper-wearing homeboys blasting “Dre Day” too loudly from a jeep. — Vibe, June/July 1994
- A good student who has already met his test-score requirement and a classmate who still hasn’t qualified take the test on the same Saturday morning. Poindexter puts Sluggo’s name on Poindexter’s test, and Sluggo puts Poindexter’s on Sluggo’s. — Sports Illustrated, 7 July 1997
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