Usually means: Support to prevent failure, collapse.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. prop up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prop up: Merriam-Webster
  3. prop up: Vocabulary.com
  4. prop-up: Wordnik
  5. prop up: Wiktionary
  6. prop up: Dictionary.com
  7. prop up: Rhymezone
  8. prop up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. prop up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. prop up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prop up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prop up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prop up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prop up: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (prop up)

verb:  (transitive) To support with, or as if with, a prop.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To be at the bottom of (a league).

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