Meanings
- colloquialnot comparableslangProbably.
I should prolly keep my eyes on the road.
4 more examples
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, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24Naw. That stream's so lazy, it prolly wouldn't even float thee.
2006 April 24, Videlectrix, Thy Dungeonman 3, Browser, level/area: Bridge which looks troll-friendlyProlly 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.
2020, Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN"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."
2022, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4907: Sasratchewan
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Clipping of probably.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish todnäk
- todnäkeye dialect spelling of probably
French sûr’ment, sur’ment
- sûr’menteye dialect spelling of probably
- sur’menteye dialect spelling of probably
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with prolly
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Cite this entry
prolly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolly
“prolly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prolly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolly.
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