prop
verb (used with object)
to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed byup ).
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It reveals the tragedy of a typical American who loses out by trying too hard to win out; it chronicles the propless failure born of the worship of success ...
From Time Magazine Archive
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