strop

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /stɹɒp/    美 /stɹɑp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — Cheap razors are a mistake, as they soon lose their edge. A good razor requires no strop. It has been suggested as an excellent plan to have a case of seven razors—one for each day in the week—so that they are all equally used.
  2. A bad mood or temper. A tantrum. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK
  3. A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond. slang
    — […] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'
  4. A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
动词 v.
  1. To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
    — One should strop the razor before each shave.
  2. 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.
  3. To strap. obsolete

词形变化

strops plural strops present,singular,third-person stropping participle,present stropped participle,past stropped past strops plural strops present,singular,third-person stropping participle,present stropped participle,past stropped past strops plural

词汇关系

衍生词
razor strop

词源

词源 1
Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.
词源 2
Back-formation from stroppy
词源 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.
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