prog

noun11

1. •
   (informal) Progressive rock.

   • He listens to a lot of prog.
2. •
   (informal) A television program.

   • It's only him that can make TV progs worth watching, he's saying. — 2009
3. •
   (informal) A program.

   • […] is there some way to connect to my new comp so I can transfer some of the software progs […] — 2001
4. •
   (informal) A progressive.
5. •
   (informal) Programming.
6. •
   Progesterone.
7. •
   (UK, old-fashioned) A proctor.
8. •
   (dialect) A pointed instrument.
9. •
   (slang, no longer used) Provisions, food and supplies, particularly for a journey.

   • O nephew! your grief is but folly; / ⁠In town you may find better prog — 1726
10. •
    (no longer used) Plunder; booty.
11. •
    (slang, no longer used) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.

verb7

1. •
   To programme.
2. •
   To prognosticate; to forecast.

   • The thermodynamics of this system are progged to be similar to the "surprise" epic Oct 2006 Buffalo, NY lake effect snow event.
3. •
   (Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.

   • An' on his royal paunches thole A dwarf to prog him wi' a pole; While he wad shaw his fangs, an' rage Wi' bootless wrangling in his cage. — 1797
4. •
   (no longer used) To feed and care for oneself, as opposed to being fed and cared for by someone (like a domesticated animal).
5. •
   (no longer used) To seek food and wealth as opposed to pursuing spiritual goals.

   • They abuse what light of Reason they have, rendring it a slave to those brutish powers of life (it ought to direct and rule over ) so as to prog about and fetch in provisions for them. — 1680
6. •
   (slang, no longer used) To seek food, goods, or money by low arts, such as begging, trickery, or abuse of power.

   • I have been endeavouring to prog for you. — 1788
7. •
   (slang, no longer used) To steal; to rob; to filch.

   • What less than fool is man to prog and plot, And lavish out the cream of all his care, To gain poor seeming goods, which, being got, Make firm possession but a thoroughfare — 1780

adjective1

1. •
   Clipping of progressive.

   • Captain Beyond had tentatively dipped their toe in the uncharted American waters of prog rock, but in England, progression was the name of the game, with a host of bands elevating themselves […] — 2003

adjective1

1. •
   Abbreviation of progressive.

   • Prog. Fish-Cult.

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of progesterone.

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of Progressive.