[ noun ] preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) <noun.act>
He plays Coach Lubbock, who loses his job at Dewey High School on "Growing Pains" and is forced to uproot his large family and take a new job at an all-boys prep school in a small town.
He was educated at prep schools and Yale, then went into the Texas oil business.
Each of the half-dozen biggest prep races for the three-year-olds had a different winner, and other entries also can boast impressive credentials.
There, the philosopher Plato set up his school, the prototype prep.
Atisanoe started in football, starring at fullback for a Honolulu prep school team.
"I'm doing something that has ruined men half my age," said the prep school headmaster from Albuquerque, N.M., of the three swims before completing Sunday's 28.5-mile trip around Manhattan in 8 hours 34 minutes.
The seven-year-old boy will be starting at the nearby Dragon School, England's smartest "prep school," in the autumn.
Among the more unusual: The Orme School, a ranch-like prep school in central Arizona, operates the Quarter Circle V Bar Ranch Camp, a Western riding camp and summer school set in 4,000-foot-high desert terrain between Phoenix and Flagstaff.
But the volunteers from the prep schools, who are mostly white, are important to the program, too, she says.
The upshot of their meeting was that in 1926 Gow created a special prep school for dyslexics in South Wales, N.Y., 30 miles from Buffalo.
He also returned to his prep school as a young teacher after studying in England.
Some residents claimed Bissinger duped them into cooperating with assurances he was writing a positive account of local prep football, along the lines of "Hoosiers," a heroic tale of an Indiana high school basketball team.
Eaton enjoyed the privileges of his family's wealth, attending prestigious New England prep schools.
Setting up headquarters in a phony rug store called Karpetland, Stone starts hatching his plans to destabilize the Soviet Union, using prep school pranks and infiltrators.
On the surface, the biography of Robert Mosbacher Sr. reads just like George Bush's: born to a wealthy Northeastern family, attended prep school and ventured off to Texas to make millions in the oil business.
Convincing parents that top prep schools are "worth" tuitions exceeding $10,000 isn't always easy.
The idea for the offbeat commencement address came from the western Maine prep school's headmaster, William D. Klough III.
Astronaut Loren Shriver is a graduate of the Air Force prep school.
He took her to his senior prom at the prestigious prep school outside Boston.
Studies by Dr. Curtis Ellison at two elite New England prep schools found that 35 percent of students' daily intake of saturated fat comes from milk, cheese, ice cream and other dairy food.
At 22, Abdo just landed a full-time job in Tony May's restaurant as a prep cook, and he'll move to a transitional house while he saves enough to rent his own apartment.