Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈpɹɒɡi/ · noun
(computing, slang) A program, especially (historical) an externally produced hacking tool used to attack other users on early America Online services..
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.
Use proggie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Proggie means (computing, slang) A program, especially (historical) an externally produced hacking tool used to attack other users on early America Online services..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.