prom

noun

1. (British)A promenade concert.
2. (British, abbreviation)A promenade.
3. (US)A 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?”

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

   “Brody (Damian Lewis): Will you go to the prom with me? / Carrie: Do I get a corsage?”

4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym 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).
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of prelabor rupture of membranes.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of passive range of motion.

verb

1. (informal, intransitive)To attend a prom.

   “: 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.”

   “> > 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.”

   “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. :-)”

name

1. A surname.
2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Prome (“the city of Pyay”).