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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

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Example Sentences

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prog Prog. progged progging

Now a full member, he’s unleashed a new layer of invention, reflecting Mastodon’s obsession with a certain kind of mid-’70s prog rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

Rush co-founders Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson will play 12 dates in honor of the band’s late drummer Neil Peart, whose monumental percussion talents made Rush a defining act in prog rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

They weren't part of a prog rock thing.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

Query, Is this the origin of our slang word prog, meaning provisions?

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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

I sat near and at intervals progged the potatoes.

From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Barrow

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

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 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

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

It will be no use you and your satellites progging about with skewers for the bullet. 

From Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Henry Seton Merriman

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