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warm prop

noun

Definitions

  1. An extra (type of actor).

    • Outside the editing room he whiled away the closing hours of the War as a volunteer extra, a warm prop in dreary military documentaries.
    • They most often create work that features male hero talent and cast, while tending to use women as 'warm props', smiling ornaments exhilarated by the supermarket's offerings but without actually getting a speaking part.

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