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property man

British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Partly imitating Chinese methods, Playwright Wilder has veteran Actor Frank Craven serve as property man, traffic cop, living newspaper and cracker-barrel philosopher.

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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."

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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.

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He was elected a limited mem ber of the famed Gridiron Club to serve as stage manager and property man at its dinners.

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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

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