strop

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɹɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stɹɑp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.

strop (plural strops)

1. 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.

   Synonym: razor strop

2. (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

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.

   Coordinate term: lap (verb)

   One should strop the razor before each shave.

   • 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions:

     The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip.

2. (obsolete) To strap.

Back-formation from stroppy

strop (plural strops)

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.

• huff

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.

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

1. (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.

strop (plural strops)

1. (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!'

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “strop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• SPORT, ports., Prost, -prost, -prost-, Ports, torps, sport, ports, trops., Prots

• stropu

Probably from Latin stroppus,^[1] from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”).

strop n (plural stroapi or stroape)

1. pole
2. stick
3. (figurative) beating

• shcop, ciumagã

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ. Compare obsolete Bulgarian строп (strop, “floor, storey”), Serbo-Croatian strȍp (which may be borrowed from Czech).

• IPA^(key): [ˈstrop]

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strop m inan

1. ceiling

   Antonym: podlaha f

• “strop”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “strop”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “strop”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Probably borrowed via West Germanic (such as Middle Low German) from Old French estrope (“snare”), from Medieval Latin stroppus, stropus (“band, strap”).

strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

1. strap
2. loop
3. hanger

From Middle Dutch strop, probably borrowed via Old French estrope (“snare”) from Medieval Latin stroppus, stropus (“band, strap”).

• IPA^(key): /strɔp/

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• Hyphenation: strop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

strop m (plural stroppen, diminutive stropje n)

1. a noose
2. (by metonymy) hanging (execution)
3. (figuratively) bad luck, loss
4. a loop
5. a rascal, brat

• stropdas

• Negerhollands: strop

• sport, sprot

• stropp

Borrowed from Latin struppus

• IPA^(key): /strɑp/

strop m

1. strap

• English: strap

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “strop”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /strup/

strop m

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   Synonym: trop

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: strop

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

strop m inan

1. (construction) ceiling
   1. (Far Masovian) synonym of kalenica
2. (geology) roof (upper part of a cavity)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

strop

1. second-person singular imperative of stropić

• strop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• strop in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “strop”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 210

From stropi.

• IPA^(key): /strop/

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strop m (plural stropi)

1. drop; droplet (of liquid)
2. (figurative) a small quantity of something, such as a grain

• stropuleț
• stropușor

• stropi

• “strop”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

strȍp m inan (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

1. A ceiling

   Antonym: pod

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

• IPA^(key): /strɔ́p/

strȍp m inan

1. ceiling (highest portion of room)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	stròp
gen. sing.	strôpa
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	stròp	strôpa	strôpi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	strôpa	strôpov	strôpov
dative (dajȃlnik)	strôpu	strôpoma	strôpom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	stròp	strôpa	strôpe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	strôpu	strôpih	strôpih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	strôpom	strôpoma	strôpi

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• tla
• pod