frosh

now dialectalA frog.

colloquialA first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.

“The frosh are really getting on my nerves!”

colloquialplural "froshes"Short for frosh week.

slangTo initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.

“This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.”

slangTo damage through incompetence.

“Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.”