proggie

English

Alternative forms

• proggy

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɒɡi/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡi

Etymology 1

From prog +‎ -ie.

Noun

proggie (plural proggies)

1. (computing, slang) A program, especially (historical) an externally produced hacking tool used to attack other users on early America Online services.
   • 2008, Eric James, Shades of the Moon: Brawls before Laws, page 37:

     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.

   • 2011, Justin Taylor, The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel‎^[1]:

     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.

Etymology 2

Clipping of progressive + -ie.

Noun

proggie (plural proggies)

1. (politics, informal, often derogatory) A progressive.
   • 2015 January 3, Rudy Canoza, “Re: The Left's Central Delusion: Sowell nails it, as usual”, in can.politics‎^[2] (Usenet):

     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.