pross v.1
to sponge on one’s acquaintances, to cadge, usu. drinks or money.
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![]() | Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 280: ‘Prossing’ is a delicate mode of indicating a desire for anything. | |
![]() | Dottings of a Dosser 105: He’d go to the pub and try to pross for a bloomin’ pint. | |
![]() | Houndsditch Day by Day 136: The outside chance of their reaching Tagg’s Hotel [...] in time to pross on some laggard pal for a ‘sip o’ Ramsgate’. | |
![]() | (con. c.1910) London Town 306: Bill wouldn’t ha’ prossed for ’is beer-money; he’d ha’ won it off you. |
In phrases
sponging.
![]() | Signor Lippo 54: So he started walking about clamming, getting a few medazas from one and another, fairly on the pross. |
to hang around, to mooch about.
![]() | Spoilers 106: Afternoon I prosses about in ’Ampstead. |