order mark

noun

order mark

noun
1

Education UK, Historical A formal black mark given to a pupil for bad behaviour.

  • "If you don't attend, Gwendolen," said the mistress, "and stop looking out of the window, I shall have to give you an order-mark."1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
  • If a child loses five or more points for his House he automatically gets an order mark.1958, Abdul Hakim, Better Schools, page 47:

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