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You never approach any prof or semi-professional sport as a hit and giggle.

Australian Athlete

Used in casual conversation, usually among students or in less formal academic settings.

Informal Usage

While 'prof' is informal, it's not commonly used to directly address your professor as it may seem disrespectful.

Not for Address

'Prof' is an abbreviation; use the full title 'professor' in formal writing or when first introduced to someone.

Abbreviation Context

 To end this evening I want to kind of go back right to the beginning. This was one of my favorite books as a child. "Under the Red Sea" by Dr. Prof. Hans Hass. He was an Austrian diving pioneer and biologist. And you know, one of my biggest wishes as a kid was to sort of, you know, be in one of you know, in the situations that he found himself.

Photographing our Seas:...

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Uncovering a radical...

 You started strong but then got softer. You need tenure, so toughen up with these brats.” I'm from Alabama. Michael “Prof Sinkinson acts all down with pop culture