Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 8 compound words that contain props. The most common are listed below. Open props in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- mad propsenthusiastic respect or credit
- warm propsplural of warm prop: An extra (type of actor).
- book propsplural of book prop: A large, wooden support structure used to support an oversized book, usually found in a library.
- clothes-propsplural of clothes-prop: Formerly, a forked stick used to raise the height of a clothesline with wet washing drying on it.
- pit propsplural of pit prop: A wooden beam used as a support within a mineshaft or tunnel.
- props masterClipped compound of property master.
- props mastersplural of props master: Clipped compound of property master.
- props upthird-person singular simple present indicative of prop up: To support with, or as if with, a prop.
- shot propsplural of shot prop: A wooden prop covered with tarred hemp, to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's side.
- theatrical propsplural of theatrical prop: Synonym of prop (“item used in a play”).
- clo' propsplural of clo' prop: Formerly, a forked stick used to raise the height of a clothesline with wet washing drying on it.
- props up the barthird-person singular simple present indicative of prop up the bar: To spend time drinking alcohol at the bar in a pub.
- agit-propsplural of agit-prop: Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and …
- acrow propsplural of acrow prop: An adjustable-height steel support used in the construction industry, typically to temporarily support structures while work is carried out.
Compound words 8
- turbopropsplural of turboprop: A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
- malapropsplural of malaprop: Characterized by the use of malapropisms.
- clothespropsplural of clothesprop: Formerly, a forked stick used to raise the height of a clothesline with wet washing drying on it.
- monopropsplural of monoprop: Any propellant that consists of a single substance, or of a mixture of fuel and oxidant in the same container
- pitpropsplural of pitprop: A wooden beam used as a support within a mineshaft or tunnel.
- propsticksplural of propstick: Any stick or pole used to prop something up.
- subpropsplural of subprop: subproposition
- underpropsthird-person singular simple present indicative of underprop: To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold, prop up.