Usually means: Encourages or stimulates someone to act.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prods, prods: Merriam-Webster
  2. prods: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prods: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prods: Vocabulary.com
  5. Prods, prods: Wordnik
  6. prods: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Prods, prods: Wiktionary
  8. prods: Dictionary.com
  9. prods: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. prods: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prods: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prods: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prods: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PRODS: Acronym Finder
  2. prods: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prod)

verb:  (transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To encourage, to prompt.
verb:  (transitive) To prick with a goad.
noun:  A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
noun:  A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
noun:  A poke.
noun:  A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
noun:  (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (programming, slang, uncountable) Short for production (“the live environment”). [The act of producing, making or creating something.]
noun:  (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.]
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