stropping
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Noun
stropping noun
- The process by which a razor is stropped.
Verb
stropping verb
- To strap.
- (recorded since 1842; now most used) To hone (a razor) with a strop.“One should strop the razor before each shave.”
stropping 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.
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