strop

• IPA^(key): /stɹɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.

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.

   Synonym: razor strop

2. (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

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

1. To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.

   Coordinate term: lap (verb)

   One should strop the razor before each shave.

   • 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions:

     The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip.

2. (obsolete) To strap.

Back-formation from stroppy

strop (plural strops)

1. (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper.

• huff

From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60.[1] Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common,[2] and the term became used more generally for any such method.

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.

strop (plural strops)

1. (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
   • 2005, Renée Rose Shield, Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street, page 156:

     […] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “strop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• -prost, -prost-, Ports, Prost, SPORT, ports, sport, torps, trops.

• stropu

Probably from Latin stroppus,[1] from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”).

strop n (plural stroapi or stroape)

1. pole
2. stick
3. (figurative) beating

• shcop, ciumagã

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ. Compare obsolete Bulgarian строп (strop, “floor, storey”), Serbo-Croatian strȍp (which may be borrowed from Czech).

• IPA^(key): [ˈstrop]

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strop m inan

1. ceiling

   Antonym: podlaha f

• strop in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• strop in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• strop in Internetová jazyková příručka

Probably borrowed via West Germanic (such as Middle Low German) from Old French estrope (“snare”), from Medieval Latin stroppus, stropus (“band, strap”).

strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

1. strap
2. loop
3. hanger

From Middle Dutch strop, probably borrowed via Old French estrope (“snare”) from Medieval Latin stroppus, stropus (“band, strap”).

• IPA^(key): /strɔp/

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• Hyphenation: strop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

strop m (plural stroppen, diminutive stropje n)

1. A noose
2. (by metonymy) hanging (execution)
3. (figuratively) bad luck, loss
4. A loop
5. A rascal, brat

• stropdas

• Negerhollands: strop

• sport, sprot

• IPA^(key): /strup/

strop m

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   Synonym: trop

• IPA^(key): /strɔp/

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: strop

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

strop m inan

1. (construction) ceiling
2. (geology) roof (the upper part of a cavity)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

strop

1. second-person singular imperative of stropić

• strop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• strop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From stropi.

• IPA^(key): /strop/

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strop m (plural stropi)

1. drop; droplet (of liquid)
2. (figurative) a small quantity of something, such as a grain

• stropuleț
• stropușor

• stropi

• strop in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

strȍp m (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

1. A ceiling

   Antonym: pod

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

• IPA^(key): /strɔ́p/

strȍp m inan

1. ceiling (highest portion of room)

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• tla
• pod