prole

[ prohl, proh-lee ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a member of the proletariat.
2. a person who performs routine tasks in a society.

adjective

1. proletarian ( def 1 ).

prole

/ prəʊl /

noun

1. derogatory.
   short for proletarian

Word History and Origins

Origin of prole¹

First recorded in 1885–90; shortened form of proletariat

Example Sentences

Last year gave us “The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe” with Eddie Marsan as an angry prole who chose to paddle away from society.

From New York Times

At that time he is merely the chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission, and his antagonists are not yet sympathetic proles but out-of-touch gentry.

From New York Times

In language as crass and cadenced as gunfire, Mamet turned their man-eat-man philosophy, which some call capitalism, into brutal prole poetry: a poetry of predation, you might even say.

From New York Times

It's dying from oligarchs, climate chaos, gun culture, racist policing, a pandemic without end, infotainment, misery for the proles, welfare for the fat cats.

From Salon

It’s toffs against proles, the rivalry of one of the great aristocrats of the early game, Lord Arthur Kinnaird, and the Glaswegian stonemason who was the first great professional, Fergus Suter.

From The Guardian