strop

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /stɹɒp/

Noun

strop (plural strops)

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, in this sense also called razor strop.
2. (British) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
3. (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Synonyms

• huff

Translations

• French: lanière
• German: Riemen
• Italian: coramella, affilarasoio

Translations

• French: estrope

Verb

strop (strops, present participle stropping; past and past participle stropped)

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

   One should strop the razor before each shave.

Verb

strop (strops, present participle stropping; past and past participle stropped)

1. (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.

Noun

strop (plural strops)

1. (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
   • 2005, Renée Rose Shield, Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street (page 156)

     […] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'

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