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stropped

stropped is the simple past and past participle of strop.

Meaning of strop

Verb (1)

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.
    • One should strop the razor before each shave.
  2. (obsolete) To strap.

Verb (2)

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

  1. 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.

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Words formed from stropped

Questions about stropped

What is stropped the simple past and past participle of?
Stropped is the simple past and past participle of strop.

Words near stropped in the dictionary

  1. strophomenoid
  2. strophomenoids
  3. strophothevoside
  4. strophuli
  5. strophulus
  6. stropped
  7. stropper
  8. stroppers
  9. stroppier
  10. stroppiest
  11. stroppily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stropped (page history and authors); strop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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