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prof^¹

/pɹɑf/ US

Rhymes with -ɑf

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noun profs

abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of professor He assumes a monotone: "'Yeah, I went to Southern.' 'Yeah, I majored in psych.' 'Yeah, I had a couple of profs who were interesting.'"
abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of profit I link up Flipz, then we burn your bridge Then we laugh about it and split the prof

Prof^²

noun Profs

informal Informal spelling of Prof. 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.

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Closest in meaning: asst, faculty, schoolteacher, teacher, professor, tutor, instructor, instruction, teach, teaching, pro, coach, sheet, profesor, professors, academic

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"prof." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/prof. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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prof. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/prof

Chicago

"prof." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/prof.

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@misc{prof_2026,
  title = {prof},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prof},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}