colloq

See also: colloq.

English

Noun

colloq (plural colloqs)

1. (informal) Clipping of colloquium.
   • 1973, “The Noble Experiment”, in 1973 Colonial Echo, Cambridge, M.D.: Western Publishing, page 150:

     Project Plus was the cultural center of the campus, with literally 24 hour-a-day possibilities. Involvement ranged from colloqs and tutorials to Sunday evening interest meetings and late night swimming excursions.

   • 1978 May 17, Patricia Keefe, “Health program cited as one of country's best”, in The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, volume CVII, number 142, page 15:

     Educational aspects of the Health Services include four-credit courses, colloqs, and workshops, all geared towards the "education of the whole person, lasting beyond their four years at UMass."

   • 2017, Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 5:

     One of the women in my dorm quizzed me about my classes over Raisin Bran. "Latin," I droned, "philosophy of religion, a colloq on medieval Icelandic family sagas—"

   • 2018 January 24, “Seats at the Table”, in Omohundro Institute‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-01-30:

     The spring semester of the Omohundro Institute Colloquia series began last night with a presentation by Richard Godbeer of Virginia Commonwealth University. Four more colloqs will follow in the next few months.

Adjective

colloq (not comparable)

1. Rare form of colloq..
   • 2008, “simple”, in Chambers Compact Thesaurus, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers, →ISBN, page 617:

     the test was very simple: a cinch colloq, a doddle colloq, a piece of cake colloq, a pushover colloq, as easy as falling off a log colloq, clear, comprehensible, easy, easy-peasy colloq, effortless, elementary, straightforward, uncomplicated, understandable, uninvolved