strop
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology 1
Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702.
Noun
strop (plural strops)
- 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.
- (Britain) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
- (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Synonyms
Translations
Verb
strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)
Translations
Etymology 2
From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60.[1] Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common,[2] and the term became used more generally for any such method.
Verb
strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)
Noun
strop (plural strops)
- (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
- 2005, Renée Rose Shield, Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street (page 156)
- […] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'
- 2005, Renée Rose Shield, Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street (page 156)
References
- Proceedings of an International Conference on ALGOL 68 Implementation: Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 18-20, 1974, ed. Peter R. King, University of Manitoba. Dept. of Computer Science, p. 148 – More serious problems are posed by "stropping," the technique used to distinguish boldface text from roman text. Some implementations demand apostrophes around boldface (whence the name stropping); others require backspacing and underlining; ...
- Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, p. 123, footnote
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably from Latin stroppus[1], from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”).
Synonyms
- shcop, ciumagã
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *stropъ. Compare obsolete Bulgarian строп (strop, “floor, storey”), Serbo-Croatian strȍp (which may be borrowed from Czech).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈstrop]
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Declension
Antonyms
- podlaha f
Derived terms
- stropní
Danish
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | strop | stroppen | stropper | stropperne |
genitive | strops | stroppens | stroppers | stroppernes |
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔp
Noun
Derived terms
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /strɔp/
Declension
See also
- (ceiling): sufit
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstrɔ́p/
- Tonal orthography: strȍp
Declension
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