strop
/stɹɑp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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.
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.
Example Sentences
- "Cheap razors are a mistake, as they soon lose their edge. A good razor requires no strop. It has been suggested as an excellent plan to have a case of seven razors—one for each day in the week—so that they are all equally used."
- "One should strop the razor before each shave."
- "The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip."
- "[…] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stɹɑp/
- British English: /stɹɒp/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
razor strop
strop off