strop

/stɹɒp/ · noun

Meaning

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.
A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
To strap.
(recorded since 1842; now most used) To hone (a razor) with a strop.
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.
A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

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