strop
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The tour, for which the Jacksonville show was the sixth strop, runs through October and is in support of the March release of Wallen’s sophomore album, “One Thing at a Time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
There’s one more elevated observation deck on the floating trail worth a strop before reaching Foster Island, from which you can connect to the Washington Park Arboretum via the southward path.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
Mine may be better used as a razor strop.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
You need to ask yourself a question I cannot answer for you: If your father throws a strop and refuses to attend the wedding at all, is that something you can deal with?
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2019
His rasping voice made Piper think of a straight razor being wiped across a strop - like in her grandfather’s barbershop back in Oklahoma.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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But the spat punctures any suggestion that the Budget will end grumps and strops inside the party.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
With strops and slammed doors, she rejects her mum, while at the same time searching for her approval.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2017
The divisions and strops of the past had undermined Les Bleus and another outbreak of in-fighting was to be avoided at all costs.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2014
By letting the flower stalk grow, drying and slicing the firm pith, they get natural razor strops, insulating material.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And away walked the pedler with his strops and his wager, amidst the shouts of the laughing crowd.
Authorities say the driver stropped and cooperated with police.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 6, 2019
When I stropped out of school at 16 and the teachers asked what was to become of me, I told them I would probably be an astronaut.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2019
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says that the crash happened Tuesday when a pickup truck driver changed lanes and ran into the back of a car that was stropped in traffic.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
No slamming pantry doors, bleep-ridden sty storm-outs or wobble-shots of Alex as he stropped off to the lower field after an altercation with a shirehorse.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2011
Later, as he stropped the razor against leather the harsh whisper made me cringe.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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I don't know what the style is, there seems no plan, no effort, players stropping at one another.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
We witnessed Rashford doing it against Villa to Hojlund, stropping and having a go.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
Nosheen Iqbal Fashion Week finally arrives and the Premier booking desk undergoes a seasonal meltdown, stropping and sulking through 18-hour days, dozens of shows and the inconvenience of international models getting lost navigating London.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2011
Located eventually at 8 Reade Street, they proved very successful, eventually acquiring more than 50 patents on razors and stropping devices.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2010
The holes in it marked the progress of his emaciation and the leather at one side had a lacquered look to it where he was used to stropping the blade of his knife.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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