hall monitor
(US) A person responsible for maintaining order in a school's corridors and halls.
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goddamn the "well actually" hall monitor energy is off the charts on this shitty website these days
i like that we've returned to the somethingawful forum culture days where every site with people on it is run by a gaggle of the angriest hall monitor locker-interior-knowers on earth
They used to do it! It was a treasured honor for the kind of kid who would also be a hall monitor. But who'd let a kid be the first into an intersection now?
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(US) A person responsible for maintaining order in a school's corridors and halls.
(When I got to this part of the podcast, I have to admit, my own inner hall monitor was on high alert.)
“goddamn the "well actually" hall monitor energy is off the charts on this shitty website these days”
— Bluesky· May 2026“i like that we've returned to the somethingawful forum culture days where every site with people on it is run by a gaggle of the angriest hall monitor locker-interior-knowers on earth”
— Bluesky· May 2026“They used to do it! It was a treasured honor for the kind of kid who would also be a hall monitor. But who'd let a kid be the first into an intersection now?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(by extension, derogatory) A person who shows or demands deference to authority.
(When I got to this part of the podcast, I have to admit, my own inner hall monitor was on high alert.)
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