strop

Meanings

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

1. To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
2. To strap.

1. A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.

1. 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.

1. A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

Etymology

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