strop UK /stɹɒp/US /stɹɑp/noun 4verb 3forms 3 noun4 •(UK, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum. •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. •A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it. •(slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.[…] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!' — 2005 verb3 •To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.One should strop the razor before each shave. •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. •(no longer used) To strap. formsstropped · stropping · strops
