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Definition of 'strop'English
Etymology 1
Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702.
Noun
( en-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, in this sense also called razor strop .
(British) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
(nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Synonyms
* huff
Verb
( stropp)
(obsolete) To strap.
(recorded since 1842; now most used ) To hone (a razor) with a strop.
- One should strop the razor before each shave.
Etymology 2
From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in , where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common,[''Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, p. 123, footnote] and the term became used more generally for any such method.
Verb
(stropp)
(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.
References
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