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.