prop

Props can be fun, stupid, and expensive. but the best props are silly.

They are part of the team known as the Forwards. Unlike football, it's the Forwards that do most of the work and let the Backs score. That's why backs are usually known as "Mummy's boys" or "glory hunters".

Prop (?), n.

A shell, used as a die. See Props.

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Prop (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Propped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Propping.] [Akin to LG. & D. proppen to cram, stuff, thrust into, stop, G. pfropfen, Dan. proppe, Sw. proppa; of uncertain origin, cf. G. pfropfen to graft, fr. L. propago set, layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf. 3d. Prop, Propagate.]

To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.

Shak.

Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky. Pope.

For being not propp'd by ancestry. Shak.

I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me. Pope.

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Prop, n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. prop stopple, stopper, cork, Sw. propp, G. pfropf. See Prop, v.]

That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.

Shak.

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