tenured graduate student

n. One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the usual maximum is 5
or 6): a ten-yeared student (get it?). Actually, this term may be used of
any grad student beginning in his seventh year. Students don't really get
tenure, of course, the way professors do, but a tenth-year graduate student
has probably been around the university longer than any untenured professor.

