strop

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒp

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. (UK) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
3. (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Synonyms

• huff

Translations

strap

• Czech: obtahovací řemen (cs) m
• Danish: rem c (razor strop: strygerem)
• Dutch: riem m (razor strop: scheerriem)

• French: lanière (fr) f
• German: Riemen (de) m
• Macedonian: ремен (mk) (rémen) m

bad mood — see bad mood

Verb

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.

Translations

To strap

To sharpen with a strop

• Danish: stryge (da)

• Dutch: wetten (nl)

References

• Etymology on line

Anagrams

• ports, sport, SPORT

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Czech

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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

Noun

strop m

1. A ceiling

Antonyms

• podlaha f

Derived terms

• stropní

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Danish

Noun

strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

1. strap
2. loop
3. hanger

Inflection

    Inflection of strop

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	strop	stroppen	stropper	stropperne
genitive	strops	stroppens	stroppers	stroppernes

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

strop m, f (plural stroppen, diminutive stropje)

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

Compounds

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

Anagrams

• sport, sprot

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Polish

Noun

strop m

1. (construction) ceiling
2. (geology) roof (the upper part of a cavity)

Declension

    declension of strop

	singular	plural
nominative	strop	stropy
genitive	stropu	stropów
dative	stropowi	stropom
accusative	strop	stropy
instrumental	stropem	stropami
locative	stropie	stropach
vocative	stropie	stropy

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Noun

strȍp m (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

1. A ceiling

Declension

    declension of strop

	singular	plural
nominative	strop	stropovi
genitive	stropa	stropova
dative	stropu	stropovima
accusative	strop	stropove
vocative	strope	stropovi
locative	stropu	stropovima
instrumental	stropom	stropovima

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Noun

strop m inan.

1. ceiling (highest portion of room)

This Slovene entry was created from the translations listed at ceiling. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see strop in the Slovene Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) December 2008