# strop
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɹɒp/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* 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)
* 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
* (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

##### Derived terms

* razor strop

##### Translations
#### Verb

strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)
* 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.
* (obsolete) To strap.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Back-formation from stroppy

#### Noun

strop (plural strops)
* (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.

##### Synonyms

* huff

##### Translations
### 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)
* (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)
* (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

* ↑ Proceedings of an International Conference on ALGOL 68 Implementation: Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 18-20, 1974, ed. Peter R. King, University of Manitoba. Dept. of Computer Science, p. 148 – More serious problems are posed by "stropping," the technique used to distinguish boldface text from roman text. Some implementations demand apostrophes around boldface (whence the name stropping); others require backspacing and underlining; ...
* ↑ Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, p. 123, footnote
* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “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)
* pole
* stick
* (figurative) beating

#### Synonyms

* shcop, ciumagã

### References

* ↑ http://www.scribd.com/doc/119066566/Al-Rosetti-Istoria-Limbii-Romane#scribd

## 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: [ˈstrop]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

strop m inan
* ceiling
    Antonym: podlaha f

#### 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), 2008–2025

## 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)
* strap
* loop
* hanger

#### Inflection
## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /strɔp/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: strop
* Rhymes: -ɔp

### Noun

strop m (plural stroppen, diminutive stropje n)
* a noose
* (by metonymy) hanging (execution)
* (figuratively) bad luck, loss
* a loop
* a rascal, brat

#### Derived terms

* stropdas

#### Descendants

* Negerhollands: strop

### Anagrams

* sport, sprot

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* stropp

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin struppus

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /strɑp/

### Noun

strop m
* strap

#### Descendants

* English: strap

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “strop”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /strup/

### Noun

strop m
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    Synonym: trop

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstrɔp/
* (Masovia):
** (Far Masovian) IPA: /ˈstrɔp/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔp
* Syllabification: strop

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

#### Noun

strop m inan
* (construction) ceiling
** (Far Masovian) Synonym of kalenica
* (geology) roof (upper part of a cavity)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

strop
* second-person singular imperative of stropić

### Further reading

* strop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* strop in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “strop”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 210

## Romanian
### Etymology

From stropi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /strop/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

strop m (plural stropi)
* drop; droplet (of liquid)
* (figurative) a small quantity of something, such as a grain

#### Derived terms

* stropuleț
* stropușor

#### Related terms

* stropi

### Further reading

* strop in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

### Noun

strȍp m (Cyrillic spelling стро̏п)
* A ceiling
    Antonym: pod

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stropъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /strɔ́p/

### Noun

strȍp m inan
* ceiling (highest portion of room)

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Antonyms

* tla
* pod