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  • noun colloquial Shortened term for “university” (the institution or its buildings)

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Examples

  • My best friend from uni is also pregnant, just coming up to 3 months now.

    twins 2009

  • What's frustrating for white people is that we've got to fight for everything and they get $35 a week and here's a grant and here's a place in uni – just wake up in the morning and go to work.

    Australia's dark heart Will Storr 2010

  • And uni is hard to get in, take a class for example, in a class of 60, 10 will have the chance to receive bachelor education.

    What are the predominant ethnic and religious groups in China? « Information Literacy Help « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2010

  • After that, I read The Hobbit, and I'm trying to read The Silmarillion, although uni is distracting me a little.

    MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Fantasy? 2009

  • I also happen to be a huge fan of the "one-pot meal," having cooked that way for a year when I was in uni!

    More Work for Mother 4 -- Enter the Stove Linda 2008

  • That I had to believe the word unquestioning, I asked my aunt while in uni ... she was a pastor with FOUNTAIN OF LIFE ... she said I was questioning the bible and told my parents I needed deliverance, I asked a Jew and he said we christians don't know anything about the religion we claim ...

    In the Beginning..... 2008

  • Any part of a mammal, bird, reptile, fish or mollusc; taco's de tripas, bulls nuts, cod fish eyes, bear bile glands, sea urchin uni and whatever else considered edible in most civilized cultures doesn't bother me a bit, but for some reason cooked cow, sheep or goat udders make me retch.

    I'd rather eat glass than.... 2007

  • Any part of a mammal, bird, reptile, fish or mollusc; taco's de tripas, bulls nuts, cod fish eyes, bear bile glands, sea urchin uni and whatever else considered edible in most civilized cultures doesn't bother me a bit, but for some reason cooked cow, sheep or goat udders make me retch.

    I'd rather eat glass than.... 2007

  • Any part of a mammal, bird, reptile, fish or mollusc; taco's de tripas, bulls nuts, cod fish eyes, bear bile glands, sea urchin uni and whatever else considered edible in most civilized cultures doesn't bother me a bit, but for some reason cooked cow, sheep or goat udders make me retch.

    I'd rather eat glass than.... 2007

  • Food Network guru Alton Brown points this out with kitchen gadgets he calls uni-taskers.

    Use Target Savings To Beat Back Lifestyle Inflation | Lifehacker Australia 2009

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