property man

British  

noun

1. Usually shortened to: propman.  a member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties

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Example Sentences

Here he amused the spectators by his foolishness, got a job as property man, amused more audiences by his inept efforts to control his props.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before he became a vaudeville actor, Joe Penner had been a choir boy, magazine salesman, Ford filing clerk, property man for an act called "Rex the Mind Reader."

From Time Magazine Archive

I've done everything in the theater except marry a property man.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the goosegirl in Die Konigskinder she drove the property man to distraction by her successful insistence upon having live geese on the stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

In The Stolen Prince I was the property man, and I also played a pennywhistle, in an imitation of Japanese music, for atmosphere.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers