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
That razor strop burns so bad, after you go to bed your legs still feel stripedy like a zebra horse.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
But the spat punctures any suggestion that the Budget will end grumps and strops inside the party.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Perhaps calmness – not auteur strops – is the key to winning against the corporations.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2013
This was a fine year for celeb strops, unscheduled hiatuses and full-on quitting.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2012
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
"There it is," said the Yankee, as he received the strops and passed over the sixpence.
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
We witnessed Rashford doing it against Villa to Hojlund, stropping and having a go.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
I don't know what the style is, there seems no plan, no effort, players stropping at one another.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
There’s little thunder, no off-piste mental excursions, no sense of a writer stropping his razor.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2018
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
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
