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Strop
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- 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 bad mood or temper. A tantrum. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
- 3 A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond. slang
"[…] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'"
- 4 a leather strap used to sharpen razors wordnet
- 5 A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
- 1 To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
"One should strop the razor before each shave."
- 2 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.
- 3 sharpen on a strop wordnet
- 4 To strap. obsolete
Etymology
Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.
Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.
Back-formation from stroppy
From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60. Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common, and the term became used more generally for any such method.
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