: strap:
a
: a short rope with its ends spliced to form a circle
b
: a usually leather band for sharpening a razor
Examples of strop in a Sentence
Verb
at the museum they showed us how men used to strop razors with leather bands before the days of disposable blades
Recent Examples on the Web
Elias Burke, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024
The bold combo is accented with a tri-color racing strip down its middle and a Rosso Mars red strop that runs along the bottom of the supercar and around its rear diffuser.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2023
Then, move on to the rotating ceramic rod, one side rough and the other smooth, and finish with the leather strop.
—Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
However, additional tools like a strop can further refine and maintain the edge.
—Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
This model has five separate stages, working from 200 grit and 600 grit diamond plates to the rough and smooth sides of the ceramic rod, then finally to the leather strop.
—Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
All that’s needed at this point is to run it on a strop a few times to straighten that microscopic edge.
—Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
Mine may be better used as a razor strop.
—Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2021
Within a day, C.L. Netherland, a massacre survivor and minister whose barber shop at 110 Greenwood Avenue was destroyed, purchased a folding chair, a strop and razor, and set up shop on a sidewalk.
—New York Times, 24 May 2021
Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
The Department of Transportation said the policy was in response to Beijing's refusal to allow a resumption of flights to China by U.S. carriers that stropped flying to China due to U.S. coronavirus restrictions.
—Harold Maass, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
Sometimes a leafy twig is selected, and before this can be used the chimpanzee has to strop off the leaves.
—National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
There’s little thunder, no off-piste mental excursions, no sense of a writer stropping his razor.
—New York Times, 9 July 2018
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Noun
Once upon a time, Ronaldo would have been prone to a strop — comically throwing his toys out of the pram and throwing his arms about as his team-mates looked on at one of the greatest players ever losing his head.
—Elias Burke, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024
The bold combo is accented with a tri-color racing strip down its middle and a Rosso Mars red strop that runs along the bottom of the supercar and around its rear diffuser.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2023
Then, move on to the rotating ceramic rod, one side rough and the other smooth, and finish with the leather strop.
—Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
However, additional tools like a strop can further refine and maintain the edge.
—Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
This model has five separate stages, working from 200 grit and 600 grit diamond plates to the rough and smooth sides of the ceramic rod, then finally to the leather strop.
—Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
All that’s needed at this point is to run it on a strop a few times to straighten that microscopic edge.
—Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
Mine may be better used as a razor strop.
—Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2021
Within a day, C.L. Netherland, a massacre survivor and minister whose barber shop at 110 Greenwood Avenue was destroyed, purchased a folding chair, a strop and razor, and set up shop on a sidewalk.
—New York Times, 24 May 2021
Verb
To strop, draw your knife backward from heel to tip.
—Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
The Department of Transportation said the policy was in response to Beijing's refusal to allow a resumption of flights to China by U.S. carriers that stropped flying to China due to U.S. coronavirus restrictions.
—Harold Maass, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
Sometimes a leafy twig is selected, and before this can be used the chimpanzee has to strop off the leaves.
—National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
There’s little thunder, no off-piste mental excursions, no sense of a writer stropping his razor.
—New York Times, 9 July 2018
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“Strop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strop. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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strop
1 of 2 noun
: a usually leather band for sharpening a razor
strop
2 of 2 verb
stropped; stropping
: to sharpen on a strop
strop a razor
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