prod
IPA: prˈɑd
noun
- A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
- A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
- A poke.
- A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
- (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.
- (Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the Protestant tradition, or sometimes those implied to be Protestant by their political ideology of Irish unionism or Ulster loyalism.
- (programming, slang, uncountable) Short for production (“the live environment”). [The act of producing, making or creating something.]
- (Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Prod. [(Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the Protestant tradition, or sometimes those implied to be Protestant by their political ideology of Irish unionism or Ulster loyalism.]
verb
- (transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.
- (transitive, informal) To encourage, to prompt.
- (transitive) To prick with a goad.
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Examples of "prod" in Sentences
- He was prodded with a stick.
- The throne prodded me in the forest.
- I prodded myself with needle by accident.
- I tried to avoid something that prods me.
- Going to prod it with a deletion stick...
- What is the reason you prod me with the stick
- I think it is wrong to prod strangers randomly.
- The man is very sensitive when someone prods him.
- The girl was surprised to be prodded by her friend.
- It is in the lowering of the bar, the sleazy approach, the gut prodding force.