PROG (uncountable)
Abbreviation of progesterone.
Synonym: P4
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Abbreviations.
prog (not comparable)
Abbreviation of progressive.
prog (plural progs)
(informal, music genre) Progressive rock.
(computing, informal) A program.
(UK, university slang, dated) A proctor.
(informal, politics) A progressive.
prog (countable and uncountable, plural progs)
(slang, obsolete) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
(slang, obsolete) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
(obsolete) A pointed instrument.
prog (third-person singular simple present progs, present participle progging, simple past and past participle progged)
(obsolete, slang) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek advantage by mean tricks.
(obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.
(Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.
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Prog
(politics) Abbreviation of Progressive Party.
Prog (plural Progs)
(politics) Abbreviation of Progressive.
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Source: Wiktionary
Prog, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Progged (. p. pr. & vb. n. Progging.] Etym: [Cf. D. prachen, G. prachern, Dan. prakke, Sw. pracka, to beg, L. procare, procari, to ask, demand, and E. prowl.]
1. To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. [Low] A perfect artist in progging for money. Fuller. I have been endeavoring to prog for you. Burke.
2. To steal; to rob; to filch. [Low] Johnson.
3. To prick; to goad; to progue. [Scot.]
Prog, n.
1. Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Slang] Swift. So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning.
2. A vagrant beggar; a tramp. [Slang]
3. A goal; progue. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
