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teachers' pets

teachers' pets is the plural of teacher's pet.

Meaning of teacher's pet

Noun

teacher's pet (plural teacher's pets or teachers' pets)

  1. (idiomatic) A student who is perceived to be favored by the teacher.
    • As an intelligent and conscientious student, he was often labelled as the teacher's pet in school.

Questions about teachers' pets

What is teachers' pets the plural of?
Teachers' pets is the plural of teacher's pet.

Words near teachers' pets in the dictionary

  1. teacherly
  2. teacherness
  3. teachers
  4. Teachers Village East
  5. Teachers Village West
  6. teachers' pets
  7. teachership
  8. teacherships
  9. teachery
  10. teaches
  11. teaches away

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