College Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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middle college n.

Also known as “early colleges,” middle colleges allow students to earn a high school diploma and two years of college credit within five years.
Such schools are designed to increase high school graduation rates and bolster college-readiness levels.

[English College Education] [full cite] (Feb. 27, 2007)

mini-dorm n. Lee said a mini-dorm, which she defined as a number of students renting a house, is not considered a business and cannot be lumped in with boarding and rooming houses. The city can’t prevent groups of people, including students, from renting a home where they’re sharing common areas. [English College Houses & Housing] [full cite] (May. 6, 2007)

mini-dorm n. Victoria Gruber, a plaintiff and president of the Student Government Association at the University of Maryland, pointed out that the council’s “mini-dorm” law restricting the number of students in a rented house—which students and landlords fought—would not have passed had students carried enough clout on the council. [English College Houses & Housing] [full cite] (May. 9, 2007)

minidorm n. Now financial planners and accountants are recommending a wrinkle on the same idea—the minidorm. To use this tactic, says James Avedisian, a tax partner with accountants Coopers & Lybrand, “buy a house on campus for several kids to share and hire your own child as live-in rental manager.” [English College Houses & Housing] [full cite] (May. 9, 2007)

pig night n. One of its disgusted members told me of its annual practice called “pig night” when pledges were sent out to find “ugly townie girls” to be invited to a big Yale party—at midnight they were told, now illegally liquored up, that they had been invited as the worst pigs that could be found, then dismissed into the New Haven winter. [English College Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2007)

poor n. Her story is proof that elites lower the bar for poors. 5th in her class at a TTT high school, and a 1440 SAT should not be getting her into Yale. [English College Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 19, 2007)

preesh v. Preesh—I appreciate that: X: “I brought you some coffee.” Y: “Preesh.” [English College Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 6, 2007)

preesh v. I’ve been trying to follow the news, but I’m lost: does someone want to tell me what the hell is going on in Lebanon? Preesh. [English College Youth Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 6, 2007)

prox card n. Sexual assault and other incidents in college dorms have led many schools to control access to these buildings by giving residents a kind of electronic key, often called a prox card, that can also be used to track the comings and goings of individual students. This technology is starting to spread to academic buildings, but daytime access to classrooms is still largely unrestricted. [English College Technology] [full cite] (Apr. 17, 2007)

psycho single n. When my freshman year came to an end in May 1981, I packed up my remnants from the “psycho single” I had been assigned—a single dorm room reserved for emergency security risks—and returned to L.A. [English College Education Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2007)

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