prof
/prɒf
/noun informal
A professor: you heard what the prof said!...
- For the pittance they're paid, adjunct profs at our colleges might as well be sweatshop workers.
- It wasn't a bad program; with full profs as teachers, I read a lot and learned a lot.
- It was only 30 years ago that university profs could refuse to teach women and I'm glad we've all moved on since then.
Origin
Mid 19th century: abbreviation.
- heartlessness
- heartlet
- heartlike
- heart line
- heartling
- heart-lung
- heart-lung machine
- heart maker
- heart massage
- heart monitor
- heart moth
- heart murmur
- heart net
- heartnut
- Heart of Dixie
- heart of grace
- heart of grass
- heart of oak
- heart of palm
- heart of stone
- heart pea
- heart piece
- heart-piercing
- heart-piercingly
- heart pine