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stropped

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verb

past tense of strop
as in stoned
to make sharp or sharper at the museum they showed us how men used to strop razors with leather bands before the days of disposable blades

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Verb
  • Since signing to Matador, the band has sharpened its sound into a quirky, exhilarated alt-pop, too uncanny to be dance-punk and too lively to be slacker rock.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Queen Latifah sharpened her tailoring with beige slingbacks in New York last month.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • To watch Lipe-Smith’s Caroline cuddle in bed watching TV on her iPad, or bopping around to JoJo Siwa, or pensively finishing a Popsicle while sitting beside her grandmother at a museum, is to have the sheer malevolence of our current administration and its adherents thrown into sharp relief.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But Sport mode was always selected soon after, which, besides adding rev-match downshifts and turning off auto stop/start, adds sharp exhaust tones to its deep-bass-induction soundtrack.
    Peter Nelson, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Stropped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stropped. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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