An informal North American clipping of 'university' — a shortened form used in casual conversation and informal writing. Common in speech but rarely written out in formal contexts. It functions identically to 'uni,' the British and Australian equivalent, though 'univ' is more distinctly North American. Both forms signal a casual, non-academic register when talking about higher education.
She moved cities when she started univ and never really came back home.
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(North America, informal) university.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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