Definitions

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  • noun at certain US universities a pre-freshman; a prospective student on a visit

Etymologies

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From pre- + frosh 'freshman'

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Examples

  • Until the Old Boys changed their minds, she was a Princeton prefrosh.

    Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

  • “Are you supposed to protect me against vicious squirrels and roving gangs of prefrosh?”

    Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

  • “Are you supposed to protect me against vicious squirrels and roving gangs of prefrosh?”

    Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

  • Until the Old Boys changed their minds, she was a Princeton prefrosh.

    Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

  • Until the Old Boys changed their minds, she was a Princeton prefrosh.

    Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

  • “Are you supposed to protect me against vicious squirrels and roving gangs of prefrosh?”

    Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

  • It's amazing - and a little scary - that Harvard administrators didn't use some common sense before deciding that this ad for "Harvard's first prefrosh blacklight party" was sufficient grounds for censorship.

    Greg Lukianoff: Maybe Harvard Thought It Was The 'Manifestly Illegal' Party? 2008

  • A female prefrosh was found unconscious near M.Cormick late on Thursday last week, according to an e-mail sent by Bexley housemaster Robert M. Randolph to dorm residents.

    The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper 2010

  • The e-mail stated that the prefrosh had been intoxicated and spent the night at Massachusetts General Hospital.

    The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper 2010

  • The CFS chose to protest during Campus Preview Weekend because that is when M.T is in the spotlight for prefrosh, said Jesse M. Ashcraft-Johnson '11, a resident of Random Hall, who attended the protest.

    The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper 2010

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