a leather strap or an abrasive strip for sharpening razors
Also called: stropper
2.
a rope or metal band around a block or deadeye for support
3. mainly British informal
a temper tantrum
he threw a strop and stormed off
verbWord forms: strops, stropping or stropped
4. (transitive)
to sharpen (a razor, etc) on a strop
Word origin
C14 (in nautical use: a strip of rope): via Middle Low German or Middle Dutch strop, ultimately from Latin stroppus, from Greek strophos cord; see strophe
Examples of 'stropped' in a sentence
stropped
Vigorously he stropped his razor before applying it to his soap-lathered face.
Fraser, Christine Marion NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Other players might have stropped or gone on strike after not getting their move.