prom

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g., near the end of the academic year.

   Would you like to be my prom date?

2. 2
   verb

   To attend a prom.

   : If I read this correctly, Pop Clifton graduated from high school : at the age of 15. Awesome. Probably took a cheerleader to the prom. : Whatta stud. Stud indeed. I'm glad to be married to a man of such talent and experience -- though so far as I know, his experiences do not include promming with cheerleaders.

3. 3
   noun

   a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year

4. 4
   noun

   A promenade concert.

5. 5
   noun

   A promenade.

6. 6
   noun

   Acronym of programmable read-only memory, a chip that can be programmed one or more times (depending on the type) and generally cannot be re-programmed without special equipment (if at all); once programmed and installed in a device, it functions as a read-only chip (as if it had been hard-wired to function that way).

7. 7
   noun

   Initialism of prelabor rupture of membranes.

8. 8
   noun

   Initialism of passive range of motion.

Etymology

In all senses, by acronymy.