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"pross" Definition

  1. to break in or instruct a stage-infatuated youth. Also, to spunge upon a comrade or stranger for drink. In this latter capacity the word is in connexion with prostitute, a PROSSER being considered a most degraded being, and the word being supposed by many to represent a man who lives on a woman’s prostitution.

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Position in the dictionary: 2704 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: psalm-smiter, pub, public patterers, pucker, puckering, puckerow, pudding-snammer, puff, pug, pull
Previous words in the dictionary: pros, props, proper, prop-nailer, prop, proof, prog, proctorized, pro, primed

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