What does "prog" mean?
Prog: To steal; to rob; to filch. [Low] Johnson.
Additional senses
- 2.To prick; to goad; to progue. [Scot.]
- 3.Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Slang] Swift. So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning.
- 4.A vagrant beggar; a tramp. [Slang]
- 5.A goal; progue. [Scot.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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