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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Prot

colloquial shortening of Protestant (n.), used by Catholics, often contemptuous.

Usage examples of "prot".

Tears had always worked with Prot when she was in trouble, and she was quick to fall back on old habits.

Usha thought frantically of what Prot had told her, wished she paid more attention.

In KPAX, it works against the film in some instances, as when Prot picks the most undeveloped of the patient characters to supposedly take back with him to K-PAX -- leaving the viewer to wonder why.

The movie always keeps our interest because of the interplay between Powell and prot, as the Doctor alternates between belief in alien visitation, and his professional hunch that prot is simply a human repressing a past trauma.

Nor was there much enthusiasm for Giselle's plan to get prot to talk to animals, though the broader suggestion of a zoo outing for the inmates was well received, and I was nominated a committee of one to look into the matter.

I brought this up at the Monday morning staff meeting, where I proposed to let prot ramble on about whatever he wanted and try to determine whether there was anything of value he might have to tell us about his (our) world, as well as his own condition and identity.

Although he demonstrated no overt traits of prot (he couldn't see ultraviolet light, for example), other signs of him were evident in Robert's personality.