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Examples of strop
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Bresnan is coming on for a bowl now, Jimmy having stomped off in a bit of a strop.
From the guardian.co.uk
If the baby spazzes out and walks off in a strop, we're guessing it's a Murphy baby.
From the hecklerspray.com
Gervais couldn't ad-lib for 5 minutes while elton john was having a strop.
From the guardian.co.uk
Rob Lowe has got in a strop about two of his former nannies and an ex-chef.
From the hecklerspray.com
Such a sum may not be forthcoming if Indian companies continue their collective strop.
From the economist.com
He was away in a strop that year, having walked off the panel early on.
From the irishtimes.com
It will end in tears, prophesied the naysayers, or a spectacular strop.
From the guardian.co.uk
I'm no stranger to getting into a strop but usually the target is my poor husband Matt.
From the express.co.uk
Dramatic though, watching waves crash on deck, feeling the full force of Poseidon in a strop.
From the couriermail.com.au
- A leather strap used to sharpen razors
- Sharpen on a strop; "strop razors"
- A razor strop is a flexible strip of leather or canvas used to straighten and polish the blade of a straight razor, a knife, or a woodworking tool like a chisel. ...
- (Stropping (syntax)) When applied to computer languages, stropping refers to the method used to mark letter sequences as having a special property (most often being a keyword or certain type of variable/storage location). ...
- 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 bad mood or temper (see stroppy.); To strap; To hone (a razor) with a strop
- A length of line used in connecting two parts of a boat or its rigging.
- A length of wire rope used to hang scenery etc from fly bars.
- A piece of line spliced to form a closed loop and used for lifting.
- A band of leather and/or fabric used to maintain a razors cutting edge. Can be free hanging or attached to a paddle. See stropping a straight razor.
