Usually means: Object used to support acting.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. prop, prop-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prop, prop, prop, prop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prop, prop, prop, prop, prop-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prop, prop, prop: Wordnik
  7. prop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Prop, prop, prop-: Wiktionary
  9. prop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prop, prop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prop, prop, prop-: Dictionary.com
  13. prop (n.1), prop (n.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PROP (category theory), PROP, Prop-, Prop (rugby league), Prop (rugby union), Prop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prop: Rhymezone
  19. prop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prop: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. prop: Free Dictionary
  23. prop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. prop: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. prop, prop, prop-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. prop-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Prop (disambiguation), prop: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prop (disambiguation), prop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Prop (disambiguation), prop: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. prop, prop, prop: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. PROP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. prop: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prop, prop, prop, prop, prop, prop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. prop: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prop: Dan's Poker
  2. Prop: Backgammon
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Prop: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Prop: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
noun:  (rugby) The player on either side of the hooker in a scrum.
noun:  Any of the seashells in the game of props.
verb:  (transitive, sometimes figurative) To support or shore up something.
verb:  (intransitive) To play rugby in the prop position.
verb:  (transitive, usually with "up" - see prop up) To position the feet of (a person) while sitting, lying down, or reclining so that the knees are elevated at a higher level.
noun:  (theater, film) An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform.
noun:  An item placed within an advertisement in order to suggest a style of living etc.
noun:  The propeller of an aircraft or boat.
verb:  To manually start the engine of a propeller-driven aircraft with no electric starter by pulling vigorously on one of the propeller blades using the hands, so that the propeller can catch ignition.
noun:  A proposition, especially on an election-day ballot.
noun:  (astronautics) propellant (“rocket fuel”)
noun:  (Internet slang) A part of a plant reared for its multiplication.
noun:  (bodybuilding slang) Testosterone propionate.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A blow; the act of striking someone.
noun:  (gambling, informal) Short for proposition player. [(gambling) A house player in a casino.]
noun:  (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of propylthiouracil. [(pharmacology, endocrinology) A thioamide drug, used to treat hyperthyroidism by decreasing the amount of thyroid hormone produced by the thyroid gland, which is associated with a risk of agranulocytosis.]

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