progress.
progressive.
slang food obtained by begging
dialect a Newfoundland word for food
programme
progress
progressive
First recorded in 1560–70; origin uncertain
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Music from the James Bond films and a night of prog rock classics will pepper this year's BBC Proms, alongside the usual programme of orchestras, operas and soloists.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
One would imagine that, like most surviving prog legends of his generation, Banks would be planning his next solo album, followed perhaps by a lengthy tour featuring guest appearances by some of his former bandmates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
On their 1973 album “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,” the synth-heavy “Who Are You?” incorporated elements of prog and space rock, while the title track was a punchier take on their sprawling epics.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
I was used to listening to Sabbath and the prog rock stuff, and at first I didn’t like the Ramones, the songs were fast, short, and noisy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Wots the hodds if yer rides in a kerredge, or drives in a double-'orse drag, With a 'orn and a loud concerteena and lots o' prime prog in the bag?
From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 by Various
In a work already referred to, Clerke's Prog. of Mar.
So: What’s the proggiest prog song that ever progged?
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2012
If he does he will be sick to death with me, I've been progged three times already this term.
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Turley, Charles
Murphy progged his bayonet through the canvas, and sunk the deadly point of the instrument into the bag of potatoes.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Barr, Robert
If these catch you without cap or gown, they cause you to be proctorized or "progged," as it is called, which involves a matter of five shillings or so.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
I sat near and at intervals progged the potatoes.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary
When he was close enough to speak without raising his voice, the proctor tipped his .mortarboard in greeting and put the traditional progging question: "Sir, are you a member of the University?"
From Time Magazine Archive
During the summer of 1941, every weekday morning at the top of the tide, McCall Purnell and I would board my skiff and go progging for crab.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
After Call left, I gave up progging and took over the responsibility of my father’s crab floats.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
I would come in from a day of progging for crab, sweating and filthy.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
As a rule there is little danger of progging, but my first term fell in evil days.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
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