Someone who helps a speaker or performer by supplying him or her, when at a loss, with a word, phrase, name, or something to say. In the theater, someone hidden out of sight to help actors who have forgotten their lines.
"Everybody being more or less inaudible, with the solitary exception of the Prompter."
Francis Burnand, My Time and what I've done with it (1874).
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