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Prog v. i. (past & past part. progged; pres. part. progging)

To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. (Low) "A perfect artist in progging for money." "I have been endeavoring to prog for you."

To steal; to rob; to filch. (Low)

To prick; to goad; to progue. (Scot.)

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Etymology of 'Prog'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prog" Quotes from Famous Books

... they was, fur the water couldn't git through the tin cans in which they was all put up, an' here we was with nothin' to live on but them salted biscuit. There wasn't no way of gittin' at any of the ship's stores, or any of the fancy prog, fur everythin' was stowed away tight under six or seven feet of water, an' pretty nigh all the room that was left between decks was filled up with extry spars, lumber, boxes, an' other floatin' stuff. All was shiftin', ...

— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton

... :proglet: /prog'let/ /n./ [UK] A short extempore program written to meet an immediate, transient need. Often written in BASIC, rarely more than a dozen lines long, and containing no subroutines. The largest amount of code that can be written off ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0