Proggie
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A program, especially (historical) an externally produced hacking tool used to attack other users on early America Online services. slang
"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."
- 2 A progressive. derogatory, informal, often
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From prog + -ie.
Clipping of progressive + -ie.
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