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▪ I. pross, pros|prɒs|
A slang abbrev. of prostitute n. 1 a.
1905Sessions Paper 8 Feb. 556 She is only a pros.; you know her. 1937in Partridge Dict. Slang. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §507/2 Prostitute,..pross. 1969C. Burke God is Beautiful, Man 55 You heard that you should go out on a date with a pross, but I tell you, you better not even think about it. 1972J. Mills Report to Commissioner 104 I'm a pros, man, I shoot up in my thighs. 1973J. Seabrook Loneliness 75 She's been hanging round the Cherry Tree—that's the pub where all the old prosses go—and she's been going down there since she was thirteen. 1975J. F. Burke Death Trick iii. 48 ‘Why is the man naked?’ ‘He was tricking with a pross.’
▪ II. pross
obs. Sc. and mod. dial. f. prose. |