strop

Plural: strops

Noun

• a leather strap used to sharpen razors
• 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.
• A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
• A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.
• A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

Verb

Verb Forms: stropped, stropping, strops

• To sharpen a razor or knife on a leather strip.
• sharpen on a strop
  • "strop razors"
• To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
• To strap.
• 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

• He would STROP his linguistic skills daily, ready for any Words With Friends challenge.
• One should strop the razor before each shave.

Synonyms

huff, razor strop

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