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matric
Informal
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
matriculation, that is, high-school graduation.
Quotations
1945
He got his matric., sure, but so did the rest of us.
1955
"I spend my time working for a living, while you sit home and moon over Rosa Luxembourg, when you ought to be boning for that Matric supp you haven't written off."
1958
. . . the teachers' federation . . . calls for merely one year of training beyond "matric."