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  • noun Plural form of strop.

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Examples

  • And I certainly don’t get why a risk of toddler-esque strops is enough to stop you using your power of arrest.

    All That Trouble Over A Footballer « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • The glamour girl has thrown a number of "strops" since Tuesday's ceremony in Las Vegas, ranting at hotel staff, her TV crew and Reid himself, according to The Sun.

    All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News 2010

  • April 24 was a typical day: "We spent the morning fixing up 'strops' for the wireless masts.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • Chelsea bores her, so she takes a private jet to Cannes, gets Katie Price's hairdresser to titivate her, hires a table in a VVIP room for £20k, then strops off home after 20 minutes as someone appears in the room who's not to her suiting.

    Tamara Ecclestone: Billion $$ Girl – Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • Consider their track record – the bitchiness, the emotionalism, the strops that feel far more frequent than once a month, the tendency to sleep their way to the bottom … It was a nice idea, but I fear Football Man's experiment in "having it all" has ended in ignominy.

    Having a Football Man at the FA has been one big failure | Marina Hyde 2011

  • The Bulgarian produced the first of this season's strops when he was ignored by Obertan as the French winger raced clear on goal thanks to a measured pass from Rafael.

    Dimitar Berbatov shines in Manchester United's stroll past Celtic Andy Hunter at the Rogers Centre 2010

  • What I am using here is not quite a standard contract as I have worked with this publisher before and argued with them, so my contracts are now tailored to accommodate the results of previous strops.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Stroppy Author 2010

  • What I am using here is not quite a standard contract as I have worked with this publisher before and argued with them, so my contracts are now tailored to accommodate the results of previous strops.

    How to read a publishing contract (1) Stroppy Author 2010

  • Brother strops his hand in his lap every time a locust exoskeleton breaks on the windshield, irregular beats, but often.

    CARTOGRAPHY 2010

  • But you don't have to wear a woggle and neckerchief while tying 76 types of knots and helping old ladies across camp fires, or something, to know that that doesn't apply when the team's manager strops off into the sunset just five days before the start of the new season, leaving the club's plans in a bigger mess than the Gulf of Mexico.

    The Jumping-Up-And-Down-Like-An-Angry-Tigger Routine 2010

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