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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A professor.
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- noun informal A
professor
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Examples
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Somewhere a former prof is ferally a-grin … EA now officially on The List.
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William Bradford "disappeared" for a while after he resigned as an associate prof from the IUPUI Law School in
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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The prof is probably embelishing his end of it as well, but the fact is he never should have been arrested in his own home for this in the first place.
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My film theory prof is going to eat this up for my terminator essay.
The Editing of Successful Hollywood Movies Follows a Mathematical Formula | /Film 2010
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Last Night, The News Hour had some Econ prof from the U of Chicago who said it was a failure.
Matthew Yglesias » ABC Can’t Find Economists Who Think the Stimulus Failed 2010
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Pretty impressive research work for an econ. prof from a 3rd tier university!
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics: 2010
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Current research in the liberal arts (the portfolio the English or sociology prof is tenured on) increasingly has almost no relevance to the general public or applicability to teaching or even scholarly merit.
Notable 2010
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To put it in context, the prof is teaching an American politics course.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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I'm still not finished with the carrot posts, though - I just found out that my Psych prof is partial to the veggies too so I'm going to be trying out another cookie recipe (and hopefully posting the other one I've made) this weekend on breaks from writing my Communications and Food Service Management papers ... but at least I finished my G*d D@mn Computing assignment!
Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah 2008
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-- A law prof is renewing his call to limit laptops in the classroom.
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