Strop Definition

strŏp
stropped, stropping, strops
noun
Webster's New World
A strap, especially a short rope whose ends are spliced together to make a ring.
American Heritage
A device, esp. a thick leather band, used for putting a fine edge on razors.
Webster's New World

(UK) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)

Wiktionary
verb
To sharpen on a strop.
Webster's New World

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

One should strop the razor before each shave.
Wiktionary

(computing) To syntactically mark a sequence of letters 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.

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Noun

Singular:
strop
Plural:
strops

Origin of Strop

  • Middle English strope band of leather probably from Old English thong for an oar from Latin stroppus twisted cord from Greek strophos from strephein to turn streb(h)- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702.

    From Wiktionary

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