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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He also loved prog rock, but that had made a music career seem unattainable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
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
“Shame Game” has a psychedelic vibe that’s kinda like a hybrid of Strawberry Alarm Clock and Blue Oyster Cult, while the title track has a prog rock vibe redolent of Styx, Rush and Mars Volta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
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
No sooner was thy father's death Proclaimed to some, with bated breath, Than every gambler was agog To win your rents and gorge your prog.
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John
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
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
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
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
I would come in from a day of progging for crab, sweating and filthy.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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
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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