prom

plural proms

1. UKA promenade concert.
2. UKA promenade (place where one takes a leisurely walk, especially by the seaside).

   Walking on the prom in the salty air / Ocean waves are crashing

   2019, Harry Buckley, “Walks Along The Prom”

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   Oh I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom! / Where the brass bands play, "Tiddely-om-pom-pom!"

   1907, John Glover-Kind, “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside”

   Walking the Prom is a Galway tradition that has been enjoyed for generations. The flat, accessible pathway runs from Grattan Road in Galway city all the way to Blackrock in Salthill

   2026 September 26 (last accessed), “Salthill Promenade Galway”, in Salthill Hotel, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2026

3. USA 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?

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   The greatest moment in my life was the junior/senior prom that we had back in April 2009.

   Brody: Will you go to the prom with me? / Carrie (Claire Danes): Do I get a corsage?

   2011, “The Weekend” (32:42 from the start), in Homeland, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis)

present singular third person proms · participle present promming · participle past prommed · past prommed

1. informalintransitiveTo attend a prom.

   > > my prom is in about 3 weeks, which isn't much in prom time. […] but his boss treats him like shit, which really makes the money not worth it. regardless of promming or not promming, tom should really start looking for another job.

   1999 May 12, Aimee Lortskell, “-I-have no prom date!”, in rec.music.tori-amos (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025

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   : 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.

   1993 December 13, Karen Lofstrom, “Announcement”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025

   However once I'd had the chance to actually start attending proms I realised the BBC were doing a decent job or letting you hear what it was like in the hall! If anything, they were giving a clearer result than you could get when promming. :-)

   2003 February 7, Jim Lesurf, “Whatever happened to graphic equalizers?”, in uk.rec.audio (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025

plural PROMs

1. abbreviationacronymbusinessAcronym 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).

   After you have blown the code into the PROMs, you can read it out, but you can't write to them anymore.

   1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 277

2. abbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of prelabor rupture of membranes.
3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of passive range of motion.

plural Proms

1. A surname.

1. alternativeAlternative form of Prome (“the city of Pyay”).