'next-to-last' definitions:

Next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column" [syn: penultimate, next-to-last]

Used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student" [syn: junior(a), third-year, next-to-last]