"promposal" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of prom + proposal.",
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          "ref": "2011 May 26, Zosia Bielski, “‘Promposals’ ratchet up the fun, and the competition”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 2013-04-25:",
          "text": "Once posed as a timid \"Will you go to prom with me?\" in the locker room, the promposal is now an extravagant public affair: Think choreographed dance numbers, serenades, elaborate scavenger hunts and dramatic staging.",
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          "ref": "2012 April 22, Beth J. Harpaz, \"‘Prom-posal’: Clever, elaborate prom invite, Washington Times / AP (retrieved 25 April 2013)",
          "text": "Rebecca Leet, 17, had an audience of more than 250 people for a prom-posal from her boyfriend, Joe Nelson, 18."
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          "ref": "2013 April 16, William Wolfe-Wylie, “It’s the season for promposals, the new trend in high school love”, in canada.com, retrieved 2013-04-25:",
          "text": "Promposals can mimic marriage proposals — dropping down to one knee, and all that — or they can be more fun. Most appear to simply spell “prom?” in a creative way, and involve flowers.",
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          "ref": "2023 May 14, Caroline Levich, “For Whom the Smell Tolls Adventure Part One)” (6:20 from the start), in The Great North, season 3, episode 21, spoken by Judy Tobin (Jenny Slate):",
          "text": "“So, if we want to make an impulse promposal, we hold the door up, and ask him to go to prom, and then shoot the confetti gun.” “Simple. Tasteful. Elegant.”",
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        "An invitation, especially one which is made in an elaborate manner, in which the invitee is asked to accompany the inviter to a prom."
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        "(informal) An invitation, especially one which is made in an elaborate manner, in which the invitee is asked to accompany the inviter to a prom."
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          "word": "prom-posal"
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          "ref": "2013 April 16, William Wolfe-Wylie, “It’s the season for promposals, the new trend in high school love”, in canada.com, retrieved 2013-04-25:",
          "text": "Promposals can mimic marriage proposals — dropping down to one knee, and all that — or they can be more fun. Most appear to simply spell “prom?” in a creative way, and involve flowers.",
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          "text": "“So, if we want to make an impulse promposal, we hold the door up, and ask him to go to prom, and then shoot the confetti gun.” “Simple. Tasteful. Elegant.”",
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        "(informal) An invitation, especially one which is made in an elaborate manner, in which the invitee is asked to accompany the inviter to a prom."
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