props

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noun(usually used with a singular verb)Slang.
  1. proper or due respect or recognition; credit:I give him props for putting up with annoying customers.

Origin of props

1
1990–95; Americanism; shortening of earlier propers (in the same sense), from proper, adjective

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How to use props in a sentence

  • Upon such expectation, Allcraft stood—upon such props suffered his aching soul to rest.

  • It was almost an hour before help came in the shape of two men carrying some props.

    The Underworld | James C. Welsh
  • There she was, coming toward him from the other end,—and if the props gave way———!

    That Lass O' Lowrie's | Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Physically and mentally, we have manufactured so many props to lean upon that we can no longer stand on our own feet.

    Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport Gibbons
  • This is dead reckoning, as the theodolite legs have been out of action for some time, splinted together to form tent-props.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson

British Dictionary definitions for props

props

/ (prɒps ) /


pl n
  1. slang, mainly US and Canadian proper respect: props to my dad

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