A cheap, untenured lecturer that teaches for peanuts at a university, naively hoping that they will beat the odds and one day get hired into a tenure-track position.
Dude, did you know that professor Smith is an adjunct professor, and he makes less teaching this class than I did working at Wendy's last summer? What a tool!

by Mr E July 23, 2008
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