Usually means: Sharpening leather strip for razors.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. strop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strop: Merriam-Webster
  3. strop, strop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. strop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. strop: Collins English Dictionary
  6. strop: Vocabulary.com
  7. Strop, strop: Wordnik
  8. strop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. strop: Wiktionary
  10. strop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. strop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. strop: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. strop: Dictionary.com
  14. strop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Strop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Strop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. strop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. strop: Rhymezone
  19. Strop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. strop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. strop: FreeDictionary.org
  22. strop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. strop: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strop: Legal dictionary
  2. strop: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strop: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STROP: Acronym Finder
  2. strop: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. strop, strop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. strop: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Strop: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stroping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
verb:  To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
verb:  (obsolete) To strap.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.
verb:  (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.
noun:  (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

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