prop

1. 1.

   support by placing against something solid or rigid

   “shore and buttress an old building”

   Synonymsprop upshore upshore

   Broaderhold

   Narrowerbolster

Other forms of prop

plural

props·

past tense or participle

propped

present participle

propping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prop

What does prop mean?

prop means "a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prop?

prop has 1 syllable: prop. In IPA it is /ˈpɹɑp/.

What is another word for prop?

Close synonyms include property, airplane propeller, airscrew, prop up, shore up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prop a common word?

prop is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with prop?

2 words rhyme with prop. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.