syn. "prom", "the prom"
1. Unusual American custom in which otherwise
Puritanical just-say-no parents support, tolerate, approve of or feign ignorance and/or disapproval of teenage public drunkedness, destruction of hotel property and lewd behavior.
2. Akin to primitive tribal rituals, where young females are made to look as desirable as possible by hopeful parents, then turned over to spear-equipped young males.
3. The lame, parent-and-teacher-sponsored event preceeding a night of Animal-House-level debauchery at the town's Holiday Inn.
4. Liberally-applicable euphemism for losing one's virginity, out-drinking a sailor on
shore leave, participating in one's first
gang-bang or date rape, milking the football team's
gnads dry, etc.
5. prevarication of ascension to manhood, by one's claiming to do any of the many aforedescribed acts in 4., oft used by the less worthy of the young males who by some
force majeure managed to attend or coincidentally be at the same location as the event and/or activity.
1. (on being told his son fucked the stoned cheerleader from behind so hard that the balcony railing collapsed and they both landed in the pool) "C'mon officer, it's just prom night."
2. "Oh my gawd,
owr dawter looked so stunning for the prom!"
3. "Dude,
after prom, Wendy's playing the
woodwind section... know what Im' sayin'?"
4. "So, did you have a good prom?"
5. "Dude, the prom was AWESOME!"