proby

The new guy?

Also used for the name of the new guy.

A father can use to intimidate daughters new boy friend.

Probationary

Who's the proby?

What up Proby?

Hi DADDY this is Cory. Dad's response is so your the Proby

At a new job you are on probationary time.so the other employee's call you Proby

by Proby April 26, 2006

procaffinate

To sit around and drink coffee instead of getting things done. Can be done while reading or watching TV.

I had fifty things I needed to do, but instead I just sat around and procaffinated with a book and my favorite mug.

by Captain Nimbus September 2, 2013

Procastibaking

To avoid work by making lots of delicious baked goodies, particularly of the cupcake variety. Urges occur when there is lots of work to be done, but no particular reason to bake.

"I've not even started writing yet, I've spent way too long procastibaking."
"I'm fat and I've failed my degree. Damn you procastibaking!"

by Siouxsie de Barnsley February 21, 2010

procedure

Defined by Gina Linetti as just a fancy word for 'proper order to do things'.

It's a Brooklyn 99 joke, y'all.

Rosa: We followed procedure.
Gina: 'Procedure' is just a fancy word for 'proper order to do things'.
Holt: Yes, that is it's definition.

by i'm-a-KOOKOOBURRA April 28, 2020

chemical process engineer

When you were 18, the university recruiters told you chemical engineering had "so much variety" and "so many opportunities!" Now, you're graduating 4 years later and have realized that your only two options include oil refining (making gasoline from crude oil) and plastics (making polyethylene from ethylene).

This is probably okay, because whatever you suffer in breathing in toluene all day wearing dark coverall FRC's in 95°F weather, you'll make up for with a 6-digit salary right out of school. You also find yourself with a strangely intimate understanding of how everything around you works, like swimming pools, HVAC, cars, plumbing... everything.

Snooty grad-school materials researcher: "So what are you doing after you graduate?"

You: "I'll be working for a (Exxon/Valero/TOTAL/Phillips66/Shell/Citgo/Lyondell/BP) refinery."

SNGSMR: "Oh, so you're *just* a chemical process engineer?"

You: *grabbing another beer, talking to someone else, driving home in your brand new car...*

by AIChE September 5, 2016

precycle

To use an empty box, bag, bottle, jug, etc. as a receptacle for other trash before you actually throw it (and the trash) away.

Jim always got plastic bags at the grocery store so he could precycle them in his various small trash cans throughout the house.

I finished my 20 oz. carbonated beverage but still found myself overcome with thirst, so I precycled it by rinsing it and filling it with water.

by testicles...that is all October 10, 2009

Procastibating

Procastibating is the practice of masturbating in order to procastinate.

When I have lots of homework I, instead of doing it, end up procastibating do all the homework in a caffeine fueled frenzy at 2:00 in the morning.

by edumacator February 12, 2007