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strop

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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. noun A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
  3. verb To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
    One should strop the razor before each shave.
  4. verb To strap.
  5. noun A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.
  6. verb 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.
  7. noun A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

Similar words

razor hone razor strap strap strally strapping string steristrip stirrup strap breaststrap

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Word family

stropped stropping strops

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