strop

/stɹɒp/

noun

  1. 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. 2

    A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)

  3. 3

    A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To strap.

  2. 2

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

    One should strop the razor before each shave.

verb

  1. 1

    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

  1. 1

    A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

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