student body

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student body (plural student bodies)

  1. All the students (pupils) enrolled at an educational institution.
    The student body held its annual all-school meeting to discuss prom night.
    • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Grissom Academy:
      The stated mission of the Jon Grissom Academy, commissioned in 2176, is to "serve a student population demonstrating excellence and passion for math, science, and the liberal arts." Its entirely human student body ranges in age from the early teens to the mid-twenties.
  2. (American football slang) A football play in which most of the players run to one side of the field.
    student body left
    student body right

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