stropping

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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