strop

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɹɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from stroppy

Noun

strop (plural strops)

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

Synonyms

• huff

Translations

Etymology 3

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Stropping (syntax)

Wikipedia

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

Verb

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.

Etymology 4

Noun

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!'

References

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

Anagrams

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

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• stropu

Etymology

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

Noun

strop n (plural stroapi or stroape)

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

Synonyms

• shcop, ciumagã

References

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

strop

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

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

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Noun

strop m inan

1. ceiling

   Antonym: podlaha f

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

1. strap
2. loop
3. hanger

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɔp/

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• Hyphenation: strop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

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

Derived terms

• stropdas

Descendants

• Negerhollands: strop

Anagrams

• sport, sprot

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strup/

Noun

strop m

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   Synonym: trop

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

strop

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɔp/

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: strop

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Noun

strop m inan

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

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

strop

1. second-person singular imperative of stropić

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

From stropi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strop/

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Noun

strop m (plural stropi)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• stropuleț
• stropușor

Related terms

• stropi

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Noun

strȍp m (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

1. A ceiling

   Antonym: pod

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɔ́p/

Noun

strȍp m inan

1. ceiling (highest portion of room)

Inflection

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Antonyms

• tla
• pod