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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
strop .
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Examples
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No razor should be condemned till it has been "stropped" well and carefully.
Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878
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Now, Im not one of those curmudgeons who grouse that their grandfather used a straight razor, stropped on a buffalo hide, so they use one too.
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He just adjusted the bevel on the blade and stropped them of burrs.
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The Thug snarled, and spat at him, so Ilderim says: "Take him to the tree yonder," and while they did he hauled out his knife, stropped it on his sole, says "Bide here, husoor," and then strode grimly after them.
Fiancée 2010
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Now, Im not one of those curmudgeons who grouse that their grandfather used a straight razor, stropped on a buffalo hide, so they use one too.
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He casually drew the knife with which he had killed two men the previous evening, stropped it slowly on his jeans and gave the Road Agent his stone face.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A day without migraine - and foregrounding the background. 2009
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A 60 to 39 vote stropped a filibuster and allowed U.S. senators to debate health care reform.
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An Acme Rokkit Launcher lawn chare had just taken off wif her frend Guinees Piggeh stropped in teh seet!
details r unimportant - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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October 26, 2008 at 9:59 am ohai kafleen! ohai ebreewun! juss stropped n tew sillybrate wiff da tawp spot
And dis mai cusin Jeff - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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He's stropped off Live With Regis & Kelly right before he was supposed to appear, you see.
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