prolly

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English

Etymology

Clipping of probably.

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prolly (comparative more prolly, superlative most prolly)

  1. (colloquial, slang) Probably.
    I should prolly keep my eyes on the road.
    • 2006, Noire , Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24:
      Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
    • 2006 April 24, Videlectrix, Thy Dungeonman 3, Browser, level/area: Bridge which looks troll-friendly:
      Naw. That stream's so lazy, it prolly wouldn't even float thee.
    • 2020, Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
      Prolly wouldn't be stopped by da cops all da time, even though I ain't doin' nothin' wrong. Prolly wouldn't have my teachers tryna put me in special ed all da time. And prolly would be in the Gifted and Talented Program wit' you and Echo.
    • 2022, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4907: Sasratchewan:
      "There's prolly good parts of the province. Only good part of the town is it's easy to sneak into the abandoned movie theater and throw expired Milk Duds to the rats."

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