Meanings
plural prexies
- slangA president, especially of a college or university.
Irving Green, prexy of Mercury Records, described the development and perfection of stereo as “a man-sized job.”
1957 December 30, Ren Grevatt, “Concensus Tabs Stereo Disk Still in Research Stage: Diskery and Phono Toppers Sound Tempering Notes of Caution”, in Billboard, page 431 more example
Stanford University's new president, angered by what he calls a "journalistic atrocity," wants student financial support withdrawn from the Stanford Daily.
1970, "Stanford prexy asks cut in paper support", (Ellensburg, Washington) Daily Record (UPI), 8 October 1970, vol. 70, no. 238, p. 3 //news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=19701008&id=LJpaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jksDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5140,393692
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe head administrative officer of a college or university
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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prexy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prexy
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