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    [Verb]  | "pry" | \ ˈprī \


    1: to look closely or inquisitively; also : to make a nosy or presumptuous inquiry


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English prien;

    [Verb]  | "pry" 


    1: to raise, move, or pull apart with a lever : prize

    2: to extract, detach, or open with difficulty


    Origin: circa 1806 ;

     Probably back-formation from {see: |prize:5|prize:5};

    [Noun]  | "pry" 


    1: a tool for prying

    2: leverage


    Origin: 1823 ;

    [Verb]  | "pry" 


    1: to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever;


      * e.g., " ... it took some effort to pry up the trap door "



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    2: to draw out by force or with effort;


      * e.g., " ... a vain attempt to pry the cork out of a wine bottle "



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    [Verb]  | "pry" 


    1: to interest oneself in what is not one's concern;


      * e.g., " ... don't go prying into other people's business "



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     [ "pry" ]

    1: (v) to badger, to try to get information out of someone/about someone; to snoop

      * e.g.,  ... You really shouldn't pry. 

     [ "pry" ]

    1: Probably

      * e.g.,  ... That's pry true 

     [ "pry" ]

    1: To snoop in someone's business, mainly when you are not wellcome!

      * e.g.,  ... Dont you pry in my family issues!!! 

     [ "pry" ]

    1: A sausage fest, as in "PARTY" without "T and A" ... a party with no (hot) girls or where the ratio of guys to girls is overwhelming and the only way of receiving any sexual favors is of a homosexual nature.

      * e.g.,  ... "Hey man, did you go to that party last night?" 


     [ "pry" ]

    2: Definition was invented by me several years ago and has increased in popularity.

      * e.g.,  ... "Yeah, but it was a total pry, there was only like 2 girls." 

     [ "pry" ]

    1: The way a certain stupid person says 'pride'.

      * e.g.,  ... i pry myself on my sexual innuendos... 

     [ "pry" ]

    1: An emo dude who acts like a fgt at times.

      * e.g.,  ... Stop the gayness, pry! 

     [ "prying" ]

    1: when you get all nosey on someone. 4real nosey..like checkin up on em n stuff

      * e.g.,  ... my bitch thinks i been cheatin n she's prying 

     [ "pry not" ]

    1: a weak, pathetic argument used in scenarios in which you generally cannot win. Resotring to "pry not" or rather "probably not" is a last hope effort to annoy someone to the point that they simply walk away and remember that you are too much of a retard to have an actual argument.

      * e.g.,  ... Someone: You're completely at fault, I physically saw you commit the crime. 

     [ "Printer Prying" ]

    1: To rumage through print jobs that are not one's own.

      * e.g.,  ... Whenever spud picks up a print job, he starts printer prying to see what other people in the office have been printing. 

     [ "Pry prism" ]

    1: A near permanent erection. Serious cases result from either Viagra complications or spinal injuries.

      * e.g.,  ... While performing a patient assessment on a car accident victim I noticed he was wielding an unbreakable stiffy. This man either sustained a spinal injury or is real happy to see me.  

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