strop

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 References 1.6 Anagrams 2 Czech 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Antonyms 2.3.2 Derived terms 3 Danish 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Inflection 4 Dutch 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Compounds 5 Serbo-Croatian 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Noun 5.2.1 Declension 6 Slovene 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702.

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

[edit] Noun

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, in this sense also called razor strop.
2. (British) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)

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• huff

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

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

   One should strop the razor before each shave.

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• Etymology on line

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• Anagrams of oprst
• ports
• sport, SPORT

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[edit] Czech

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Cf. obsolete Bulgarian строп (strop), “‘floor, storey’”), Croatian strop (which may be borrowed from Czech).

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strop m.

1. A ceiling

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• podlaha f.

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• stropní

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strop c. (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

1. strap
2. loop
3. hanger

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strop m. & f.

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

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• stropdas: necktie (often shortened to das, not equivalent to the English short form tie)

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

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strȍp m. (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

1. A ceiling

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[edit] Slovene

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

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strop m.

1. A ceiling (highest portion of room)