Strip of flexible material, especially leather, used for fastening or holding things together.
1 He eyed her manipulation of the razor on the strop with approval.
2 He got out a case of razors and searched for the strop .
3 He said he'd... er, strop anyone who wasn't careful with his stuff.
4 Then he proceeded to strop a razor at one of the windows.
5 It will end in tears, prophesied the naysayers, or a spectacular strop .
6 Is this move to New York as result of Toronto's strop ?
7 You set foot on my land again, and I'll strop your hide myself!
8 We stared at each other, with the strop and the sponge between us.
9 The gave it a last loving strop on his horny palm.
10 When she remembered where the strop was, it was too late.
11 Neil sang like a particularly demented teenager in a strop with the world.
12 Marcus grabbed the lifting strop and paid out the cable on the winch.
13 A calico cat sauntered in from the hallway to strop the innkeeper's ankles.
14 The hurrying strop of rotorblades on the fabric of the night.
15 The leader's claims were openly challenged, sending the ZANU-PF representative into a strop .
16 What in heaven's name has a razor strop to do with it anyhow?
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