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prompose

prompose verb: to ask someone to prom using a promposal.

Verb

prompose (third-person singular simple present promposes, present participle promposing, simple past and past participle promposed)

  1. To ask someone to prom using a promposal.
    • We have no idea how to compete with that. Which was a real problem when our partner, Hudson’s Bay, asked us to come up with some cool and interesting ways to help students prompose.2017 November 3, Kat Lourenco, “Six Awesome Ways To Prompose With These Hilarious Puns”, in Student Life Network

Forms of prompose

third-person singular presentpromposes
present participlepromposing
past participlepromposed
pastpromposed

Origin of prompose

Blend of prom + propose, likely as a back-formation from promposal.

Questions about prompose

What does prompose mean?
Prompose means to ask someone to prom using a promposal.
What part of speech is prompose?
Prompose is a verb.
What is the past tense of prompose?
The past tense of prompose is promposed.

Words near prompose in the dictionary

  1. promoves
  2. promoving
  3. promoxolane
  4. promposal
  5. promposals
  6. prompose
  7. promposed
  8. promposee
  9. promposees
  10. promposer
  11. promposers

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