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strop

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5 lettersPronunciation /stɹɒp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted oprstStarts with SEnds with P0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. sharpen on a strop

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • One should strop the razor before each shave.
  • The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip.
  • […] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'

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