strop

See also: Strop and Štrop

English

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Australia):

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

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

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.

   Synonym: razor strop

   • 1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia:

     Cheap razors are a mistake, as they soon lose their edge. A good razor requires no strop. It has been suggested as an excellent plan to have a case of seven razors—one for each day in the week—so that they are all equally used.

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

Derived terms

• razor strop

Translations

strap

• Bulgarian: ремък за точене (remăk za točene)
• Czech: obtahovací řemen m
• Danish: rem (da) c, (razor) strygerem c
• Dutch: riem (nl) m, (razor) scheerriem m
• French: lanière (fr) f
• German: Riemen (de) m
• Italian: coramella (it) f, affilarasoio m
• Macedonian: ремен m (remen)
• Swedish: strigel c

rope

• Catalan: estrop (ca) m
• French: estrope (fr) f
• Ido: stropo (io) f

Verb

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.

Translations

To strap

To sharpen with a strop

• Bulgarian: точа на ремък (toča na remăk)
• Czech: obtahovat impf
• Danish: stryge (da)
• Dutch: wetten (nl)
• Swedish: strigla

Etymology 2

Back-formation from stroppy.

Noun

strop (plural strops)

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

Synonyms

• huff

Derived terms

• strop off

Translations

bad mood

Etymology 3

From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60. Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common, 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)

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.

Etymology 4

Noun

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!'

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “strop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

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

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• stropu

Etymology

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

Noun

strop n (plural stroapi or stroape)

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

Synonyms

• shcop, ciumagã

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstrop]

• Audio:

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Noun

strop m inan

1. ceiling

   Antonym: podlaha f

Declension

Declension of strop (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	strop	stropy
genitive	stropu	stropů
dative	stropu	stropům
accusative	strop	stropy
vocative	strope	stropy
locative	stropě, stropu	stropech
instrumental	stropem	stropy

Derived terms

• stropní

Further reading

• “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), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

strop c (singular definite stroppen, plural indefinite stropper)

1. strap
2. loop
3. hanger

Inflection

Declension of strop

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	strop	stroppen	stropper	stropperne
genitive	strops	stroppens	stroppers	stroppernes

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɔp/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: strop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

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

Derived terms

• stropdas

Descendants

• Negerhollands: strop

Anagrams

• sport, sprot

Old English

Alternative forms

• stropp

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin struppus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɑp
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

strop m

1. strap

Descendants

• English: strap

References

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

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strup/

Noun

strop m

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   Synonym: trop

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɔp/

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): [ˈstrɔp]
  • (Łowicz) IPA^(key): [ˈstrɔp]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: strop

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Noun

strop m inan

1. (construction) ceiling
   1. (Far Masovian) synonym of kalenica
   2. (Łowicz) steep roof
2. (geology) roof (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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

strop

1. second-person singular imperative of stropić

Further reading

• “strop”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “strop”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Stanisław Ciszewski (1909), “strop”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne‎^[3] (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 210
• Halina Świderska (1929), “strop”, in Dialekt Księstwa Łowickiego (in Polish), Warsaw, →ISBN, page 135

Romanian

Etymology

From stropi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strop/

• Audio:

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Noun

strop m (plural stropi)

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

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	strop	stropul	stropi	stropii
genitive-dative	strop	stropului	stropi	stropilor
vocative	stropule		stropilor

Derived terms

• stropuleț
• stropușor

Related terms

• stropi

Further reading

• “strop”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Noun

strȍp m inan (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)

1. A ceiling

   Antonym: pod

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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɔ́p/

Noun

strȍp m inan

1. ceiling (highest portion of room)

Declension

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.

Antonyms

• tla
• pod