Crossword-Solution: STROP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Strop | n. | A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3. |
| Strop | v. t. | To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor. |
| Strop | n. | A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STROP | anagram | PORTS, PROST, PROTS, SPORT, TORPS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with STROP (5)
The Anglo-American's policy toward the Indian was to kill him and take his land, perhaps make a razor-strop out of his hide.
The public was, I think, particularly attracted by the homely familiarity of his field of work—you never lost sight of your investment they felt, with the name on the house-flannel and shaving-strop—and its allegiance was secured by the Egyptian solidity of his apparent results.
Sometimes, after a long inspection of an epitaph, he would strop his beak upon the grave to which it referred, and cry in his hoarse tones, ‘I’m a devil, I’m a devil, I’m a devil!’ but whether he addressed his observations to any supposed person below, or merely threw them off as a general remark, is matter of uncertainty.
Mantalini was disclosed to view, with his shirt-collar symmetrically thrown back: putting a fine edge to a breakfast knife by means of his razor strop.
Look at this iron work, too--the stately andirons in that big fireplace, the shovel, the tongs, and the massive strop-hinges on the doors.” “He did that, too?” she asked in amazement.
Quotes with STROP (3)
Kate stops grinding the knife and begins to pass it over the length of the stone. Turning her wrist, she pulls the blade, swiping one side after the other, honing it to a fine edge. She wipes it dry with an old cloth and picks up a long piece of dark leather. One end of the strop she ties to the knob on the back of her chair, then holds it taught with her left hand. She counts in her head as she passes the blade over the length of the leather, flipping it at the bottom and th…
How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see. One minute he says to turn the other cheek, the next minute he's having a big strop and kicking over lads' market stalls. He says blessed are the meek and he goes around shouting and roaring the odds to everyone. He rises from the dead and then shags off a few weeks later and leaves his buddies in the shit.
Despite some of the stories that have gone around, I've never had a big, flouncey strop about how much I'm paid. Considering I have a pretty interesting life out of making telly, I'm really paid quite well for it. So I'm not complaining.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 306 times in crossword archives (1946–2024).