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Cool article about male student (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

freshman

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'student' is the definition.
(freshman is a kind of student)

'cool article about male' is the wordplay.
'cool article about' becomes 'fresh' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'male' becomes 'man' (man is a kind of male).
'fresh'+'man'='FRESHMAN'

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(Other definitions for freshman that I've seen before include "Student in his first year" , "New male student" , "He's a first-year college student" , "newly experiencing life in Jesus?" , "Young person" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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