Associations to the word «Strop»

Adjective

Verb

Adverb

Wiktionary

STROP, noun. 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, in this sense also called razor strop.

STROP, noun. (British) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)

STROP, noun. (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

STROP, verb. (obsolete) To strap.

STROP, verb. (recorded since 1842; now most used) To hone (a razor) with a strop.

STROP, verb. (computing) 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.

Dictionary definition

STROP, noun. A leather strap used to sharpen razors.

STROP, verb. Sharpen on a strop; "strop razors".

Wise words

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