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frosh

frosh \frosh\, n.; pl. frosh. [from freshman by shortening.] a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university; a freshman. [informal]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frosh

student colloquial shortening and alteration of freshman, attested from 1908, "perh. under influence of German frosch frog, (dial.) grammar-school pupil" [OED].

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frosh

Etymology 1 n. (context dialectal English) A frog. Etymology 2

n. (context colloquial English) A first year student, at certain universities. vb. 1 (context transitive slang English) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way. 2 (context transitive slang English) To damage through incompetence.

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Frosh (album series)

Frosh is a compilation album series, released on Polygram Records in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The albums collect popular party anthems frequently associated with university and college frosh week festivities.

Usage examples of "frosh".

Three hundred fellow frosh, gulp­ing down breakfast lattes and Cokes from the student center, grum­bling at the early hour.

And there went whole schools of identical frosh, car­ried along on the whims of the tide.

He also worked occasionally on an autobiographical screenplay called “The Frosh,” which chronicled his days as a freshman at Brockport.

But Mary was thirty-nine now—her birthday had come and gone, unremarked by anyone—and frosh at York were as young as eighteen.