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strop

Pronunciation: /stɹɒp/

The English word “strop” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.
  2. A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
  3. A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.
  4. A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

verb

  1. To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
  2. To strap.
  3. To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.

Etymology

Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.

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