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
Be responsible, she exclaimed, as she walked off in a strop.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2020
The mirror still hung there from his time, and beside it a long leather strop for sharpening the edge on his cutthroat razor.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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
Least excited about: The usual soap opera, personality, inflammatory quotes, so-called mind so-called games, feuds, strops, handshakes and so on that somehow appear in the eyeline just as there’s some actual football happening.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2014
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
De strops had holes in 'em so dat dey raised big blisters.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
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
His nostrils were dark and fiery as he labored around me, pumping up the chair and stropping his razor.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
