how to pronounce strop

/stɹɒp/

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strop is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of strop in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… together until you form acetyl strop and …”

meanings of strop

noun:

A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.).
A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called razor strop.
A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

verb:

To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.
To hone (a razor) with a strop.
To strap.

strop frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word strop occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics strop can be related to

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