simple past tense and past participle of strop

(slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

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, in this sense also called razor strop.

(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.

(obsolete) To strap. / (recorded since 1842; now most used) To hone (a razor) with a strop.

plural of strop

present participle of strop

The process by which a razor is stropped.

plural of stropping

(UK, naval slang) A conceited, argumentative or swaggering sailor.