props

[props]

noun

(usually used with a singular verb)

1. proper or due respect or recognition; credit.

   I give him props for putting up with annoying customers.

props

/ prɒps /

plural noun

1. slang,  proper respect

   props to my dad

Word History and Origins

Origin of props¹

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

Example Sentences

The Academy Museum is opening its largest single-film show yet, collecting props and artifacts from a movie that invented the summer blockbuster as we know it.

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All requests for the fostering or adoption of the felines will be denied from 6 October to 10 November to protect them from being hurt or used as props, said the local animal welfare service.

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But it is props not participants that bosses at one of the show's host venues are keen to get out of the building to raise funds for what is one of Wales' most at-risk structures.

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The props turn slowly in unison—calibrating, calibrating—then spool furiously, a squadron of lawn mowers on deck.

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Recipients become props in donors’ narratives, rather than agents of change.

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