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
He left the field in a strop often enough after games, so what might he be saying in private given the overall malaise at Old Trafford?
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2022
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
He moved to his razor strop while Hospital Tommy tried to keep his customer in the chair.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
But the spat punctures any suggestion that the Budget will end grumps and strops inside the party.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
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
Perhaps calmness – not auteur strops – is the key to winning against the corporations.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2013
Other people ignore the legend or interpret it as gentle self-ingratiation by the Gillette Co., meaning, "Whoso uses a Gillette razor, he strops not, neither does he hone."
From Time Magazine Archive
Government cannot want them all for its own use, and perhaps will see to it that old buff strops once more find an open market.
From Lost Leaders by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge
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
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
Tanya pleads, in whichever bar, office, restaurant or sunbed saloon she's stalked him to, chucking him her trademark satanic glare, turning on a six-inch Roberto Cavalli heel and stropping off.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010
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
Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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