Definitions

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  • noun UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, informal A child.
  • noun UK, military, RAF, slang A new recruit.
  • noun uncountable, Australia, slang Semen.
  • verb UK, Australia, slang To produce children.
  • verb Australia, slang To ejaculate, to come.

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  • noun a new military recruit
  • noun a child

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Examples

  • Went later on with couple of others to nice place that serves good ribs (interesting times trying to explain "sprog" to a Russian and a Dutchman), and now back.

    May 19th, 2004 2004

  • That's why a common 18th birthday present for the sprog is the parents paying for the driving school.

    Politics.ie EvotingMachine0197 2010

  • Whether you are a novice 'sprog' comic book pilot or a seasoned veteran, the fantastic aero art created by the Commando artists and the compelling stories will leave you gasping for the next 'Scramble'!

    Archive 2009-05-01 Steve 2009

  • Sons don’t resemble their fathers in every detail, I’ve noticed it time and time again, and there’s many a woman brought to bed of a son who is profoundly thankful for that fact, and expends a great deal of her postpartum energy assuring the sprog’s tata that the sprog is a dead ringer for her great-uncle Lucius Tiddlypuss.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • Editor of 'Stars!! "magazine, Sleb Starfucker, said," the bidding war is intense - huge sums are being thrown around to avoid having to shoot Wayne and his sprog.

    Roo Baby in Bidding War Dungeekin 2009

  • Similar to me except I got £3.27 so that makes your number higher than mine …. sprog on April 9, 2010 at 9: 43 pm Columbo

    Gadget Election Thought For Today « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • If Alfie instills the same value to his love sprog he could be grandfather by the time he is 26!!

    The Customer Is Always Right « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Well … I remember as a sprog err … student officer 20-ish years ago, being on the New Years Eve van in metro city … I had more kisses from lovely young girls (of course I was closer to their age then) on that night than I did in the following year.

    Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • You have to conclude it's a kind of parental voodoo invocation, performed in the hope serious beauty will pass on to the newborn sprog.

    Movie stars see their name in lights and on babies Andrew Pulver 2010

  • Editor of 'Stars!! "magazine, Sleb Starfucker, said," the bidding war is intense - huge sums are being thrown around to avoid having to shoot Wayne and his sprog.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009

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  • Someone else remembers the manual for Populus?

    January 9, 2007

  • Nickname for House Sparrow.

    December 7, 2007

  • And all-around awesome word...

    December 8, 2007

  • Proud of sprogs

    Sprog 1 my Emma

    Sprog 2 my Zoe

    Sprog 3 my Nicolina

    January 29, 2008

  • "'I wanted to meet my son-in-law.'

    He turned to Landen, grasped his hand and sized him up carefully.

    'How are you, my boy? Have you had a vasectomy?'

    'Well, no,' replied Landen, vaguely embarrassed.

    'How about a heavy tackle playing rugby?'

    'No.'

    'Kick from a horse in the nether regions?'

    'No.'

    'What about a cricket ball in the googlies?'

    'No!'

    'Good. Then we might get some grandchildren out of this fiasco. It's high time little Thursday here was popping out some sprogs instead of dashing around like some wild mountain piglet -'"

    - Jasper Fforde, 'The Eyre Affair'.

    October 27, 2008

  • This was the name of Mad Max's kid? Not very imaginative...

    July 14, 2018