STROP

strop

Noun

  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. A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
  3. A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Verb

  1. 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 (etymology 2)

  1. 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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