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Definition strop

Etymology 1

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

Noun

strop (plural strops)

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

Verb

strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)

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

Etymology 2

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.

Verb

strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)

1. (computing) 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.

Etymology 3

Noun

strop (plural strops)

1. (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

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