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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As with the wildly successful Northern Soul Prom in 2023, this year's exploration of prog rock will be curated by BBC 6 Music DJ and former NME writer, Stuart Maconie.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
In their own way, they highlight the band’s incomparable musicianship as arguably prog rock’s reigning masters.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2023
Why, it would bring a swarm of the beauties round to carve us up instead of the wittles; and as to prog, why, I ain’t seen nothing but that one bear.
From Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills by Groome, William H. C.
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 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
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
I sat near and at intervals progged the potatoes.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary
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
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
Don’t rub your head in the sauce, my good man, nor go progging about after the shrimps or oysters therein.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.
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