proggie
/ˈpɹɒɡi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A program, especially (historical) an externally produced hacking tool used to attack other users on early America Online services.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "Ben bought a laptop shortly after and we would stay up all night making proggies with Visual Basic to use on AOL. These proggies were platform based applications that allowed us to do numerous things online, to other customers."
- "The hackers had homemade programs, which they called proggies, and each proggie had some stupid scary-sounding name that paid homage to the miasma of gangsta rap and Mountain Dew from which it had been born."
- "Proggies want to regress society to pre-market era, when the "economy" was run by nobility and priests - in effect, there was no economy. The proggies have different names for the people running the economy and making the decision, but it's functionally the same thing."
Etymology
From prog + -ie.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈpɹɒɡi/