prolly

Clipping of probably.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒ.li/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈprɑ.li/
• Rhymes: -ɒli

prolly (comparative more prolly, superlative most prolly)

1. (colloquial, slang) Probably.

   I should prolly keep my eyes on the road.

   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], 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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