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
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
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
They weren't part of a prog rock thing.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
You’re too vallable a man to be spared, Mr Ward, sir, and one can only go down after that there prog when we’re reg’lar dead beat.
From Midnight Webs by Fenn, George Manville
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
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
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
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 Merriman, Henry Seton
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