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  prog

  verb (used without object)

  to search or prowl about, as for plunder or food; forage.
• prog.
  prog.

  abbreviation

  progress.
• Prog.
  Prog.

  abbreviation

  Progressive.

prog

¹ American  

[prog] / prɒg /

verb (used without object)

progged, progging

1. to search or prowl about, as for plunder or food; forage.

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noun

1. food or victuals.

prog. ² American  

abbreviation

1. progress.

2. progressive.

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Prog. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Progressive.

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prog ¹ British  

/ prɒɡ /

verb

1. slang (intr) to prowl about for or as if for food or plunder

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noun

1. slang food obtained by begging

2. dialect a Newfoundland word for food

prog. ² British  

abbreviation

1. programme

2. progress

3. progressive

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prog ³ British  

/ prɒɡ /

noun

1. short for proctor

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verb

1. (tr) (of a proctor) to discipline (a student)

Prog. ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. Progressive (Party, movement, etc)

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prog ⁵ British  

/ prɒɡ /

noun

1. informal short for programme, esp a television programme

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Etymology

Origin of prog

First recorded in 1560–70; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

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prog Prog. progged progging

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

They weren't part of a prog rock thing.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

I think our audiences were largely male, and though I don’t count myself in the nomenclature of prog — hate that word — I would think something in the audiences might have been similar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

She was known for her passion for a wide range of music, championing everything from prog rock and punk to acid house and grime.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024

And not alone was her kindness shown To the hale and hungry lot Who drank her grog and ate her prog, And paid their honest shot.

From Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by W. J. S.

In a work already referred to, Clerke's Prog. of Mar.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

So: What’s the proggiest prog song that ever progged?

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2012

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 John Corbin

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 Robert Barr

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 Charles Turley

I sat near and at intervals progged the potatoes.

From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Barrow

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

I would come in from a day of progging for crab, sweating and filthy.

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

As a rule there is little danger of progging, but my first term fell in evil days.

From An American at Oxford by John Corbin