prolly
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prolly (comparative more prolly, superlative most prolly)
- (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[1], 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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eye dialect spelling of probably
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