Old English ‘leather band for tying an oar’, from Latinstruppus ‘band, strap’, from Greekstrophos ‘twisted band’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
The two schools shared some equipment and services, including the razor strop used to discipline students.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►gets in a strop
She’s a nice person but she just gets in a strop so easily.
1a narrow piece of leather used for making a razor sharp2in a strop British English informal annoyed about something: She’s a nice person but she just gets in a strop so easily.