next-to-last

Adjective next-to-last has 2 senses

• next-to-last(s = adj.all) penultimate - next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column"
• next-to-last(s = adj.all) junior, third-year - used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"