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IT IS PROBABLY NOT PROLLY!!!!

Here is what I think of whoever uses the word prolly:
The way lazy idiots say the word "probably." Another internet bastardization that makes some want to stab whoever uses it in the foot.





<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD class=def_number width=20>1.</TD><TD class=def_word>Prolly</TD><TD class=def_thumbs><TABLE style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto" cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD><TD noWrap>106 up, 20 down</TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD colSpan=2>Shortened version of "probably". Typically used in online conversations, although REALLY lazy people have started using it in verbal conversations as well...
I'm feeling lazy so I prolly won't bother doing homework.
by Sarah Feb 4, 2004 email it
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</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=def_number width=20>2.</TD><TD class=def_word>prolly</TD><TD class=def_thumbs><TABLE style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto" cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD><TD noWrap>52 up, 7 down</TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD colSpan=2>Web-slang abbreviation of "probably". Used extensively in forums and instant messsaging worldwide.
Red: I'll prolly cream my shorts when they release Halo 2.
Blue: You're such a cockbite.

by SticKboy Apr 14, 2004 email it

</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=def_number width=20>3.</TD><TD class=def_word>prolly</TD><TD class=def_thumbs><TABLE style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto" cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD><TD noWrap>49 up, 24 down</TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD colSpan=2>The way lazy idiots say the word "probably." Another internet bastardization that makes some want to stab whoever uses it in the foot.
Moron: "shut up, you fucking cock, you prolly dropped out of high school and now fuck your fat landlord to pay the rent in your shitty apartment!!!!"

Educated Person: "You should probably...I mean, "prolly" die very soon."

tags stupid fucking word that should die
by Ryan McGinnis Livermore, CA Jan 2, 2006 email it

</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=def_number width=20>4.</TD><TD class=def_word>prolly</TD><TD class=def_thumbs><TABLE style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto" cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD><TD noWrap>42 up, 13 down</TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD colSpan=2>new word for probably.
I prolly have forgotten any basic English I learned in school.
by raindance Aug 18, 2003 email it

</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=def_number width=20>5.</TD><TD class=def_word>prolly</TD><TD class=def_thumbs><TABLE style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto" cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD><TD noWrap>26 up, 7 down</TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD colSpan=2>Literary colloquialism for "probably", most likely first used in print in John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces, (1980), in the speech of one of the book's characters, the mother of the protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly. The use of the word is meant to reflect the speech typical of white working-class residents of New Orleans, Louisiana.
That prolly is the reason he left in the first place.
by Christopher Henry Maryland Sep 21, 2005 email it

</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=def_number width=20>6.</TD><TD class=def_word>prolly</TD><TD class=def_thumbs><TABLE style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto" cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD><TD noWrap>12 up, 5 down</TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD colSpan=2>1. (adv) With Certainty and easy to believe.
2. (adv) With high probability.
ETYMOLOGY: 1990s alteration of probably
1 "He will prolly go out with the beautiful
girl."
2 "A Dinosaur will prolly never eat a human."

by Theperm Jan 13, 2004 email it

</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=def_number width=20>7.</TD><TD class=def_word>prolly</TD><TD class=def_thumbs><TABLE style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto" cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD><TD noWrap>27 up, 23 down</TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD colSpan=2>The way in which morons spell the word
probably. See also probly
Guy 1: So, after you ass fucked that chick do you think you got anal warts?

Guy 2: Prolly.

by Sam Trebnick Apr 22, 2005 email it

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Go Grizz!!!
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Exactly. Learn to spell people. Get some education and quick typing sentences like your a 15 year old.

Read #4.

4. prolly 42 up, 13 down

new word for probably.
I prolly have forgotten any basic English I learned in school.
 

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