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frosh
/fɹɔʃ/
noun 3verb 2
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Definitions
noun
1
A frog.
1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356
noun
1
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!
2
Ellipsis of frosh week.
verb
1
To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
2
To damage through incompetence.
Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
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1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356
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The frosh are really getting on my nerves!
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This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
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Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
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