Background for strop

strop

/stɹɒp/

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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.

Examples :

"He carefully ran the straight razor across the leather strop before shaving, sharpening the blade. "

material utensil device item

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noun

A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)

Examples :

"Her morning strop made everyone in the house walk on eggshells. "

attitude character mind emotion

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noun

A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Examples :

"The heavy block and tackle was secured to the ceiling with a thick strop, ensuring it wouldn't fall during the warehouse inventory. "

nautical sailing technical item

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verb

Examples :

"The angry father threatened to strop his son if he didn't improve his grades. "

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verb

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

Examples :

"One should strop the razor before each shave."

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verb

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.

Examples :

"The programming instructor asked the students to strop the keyword "while" in their code examples by writing it in all capital letters, WHILE, to make it easily identifiable. "

computing language writing technical word communication

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noun

A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

Examples :

"The jeweler tossed the small, flawed diamond into a separate pile, dismissing it as a strop. "

mineral material geology value asset