stropping
- present participle of strop.
Example Sentences
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We witnessed Rashford doing it against Villa to Hojlund, stropping and having a go.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
I don't know what the style is, there seems no plan, no effort, players stropping at one another.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
There’s little thunder, no off-piste mental excursions, no sense of a writer stropping his razor.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2018
BST13:48 88 min: McClean and Naismith booked for mutual stropping.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2015
The holes in it marked the progress of his emaciation and the leather at one side had a lacquered look to it where he was used to stropping the blade of his knife.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
