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Strapped vs Stropped - What's the difference?

strapped | stropped |

As verbs the difference between strapped and stropped

is that strapped is past tense of strap while stropped is past tense of strop.

As an adjective strapped

is muscular.

strapped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (strap)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a person, informal) muscular
  • (slang) armed, having a weapon
  • poor

    • Synonyms

    * (without money) see also

    Derived terms

    * strapped for cash

    stropped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (strop)

    • strop

    English

    Etymology 1

    Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 .
  • (British) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
  • (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
    • Synonyms
    * huff

    Verb

    (stropp)
  • (obsolete) To strap.
  • (recorded since 1842; now most used ) To hone (a razor) with a strop.
    • One should strop the razor before each shave.

    Etymology 2

    From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in , where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common,''Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, p. 123, footnote and the term became used more generally for any such method.

    Verb

    (stropp)
  • (computing) To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.

    • References

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