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In some senses, frosh is marked as slang, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A frog.
1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356
noun
A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.
The frosh are really getting on my nerves!
Ellipsis of frosh week.
verb
To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
To damage through incompetence.
Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.