Prof

//pɹɑf// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of professor. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal

    "He assumes a monotone: "'Yeah, I went to Southern.' 'Yeah, I majored in psych.' 'Yeah, I had a couple of profs who were interesting.'""

  2. 2
    Informal spelling of Prof. alt-of, informal

    "Prof Barbara Walter notes in her book How Civil Wars Start that two conditions are key: ethnic factionalism and anocracy – when a country is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic."

  3. 3
    someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university wordnet
  4. 4
    Clipping of profit. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal

    "I link up Flipz, then we burn your bridge Then we laugh about it and split the prof"

Synonyms

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Example

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"Prof. Smith is famous for his eccentric life style."

Etymology

Shortening.

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