1. stropping - Noun
2. stropping - Verb
Derived from strop
of Strop
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart. Robert A. Heinlein
As in Algol, there were no reserved words in the language as keywords were identified by underlining (or stropping), not by recognising reserved character sequences. Source: Internet
However, one stropping regime was to not strope the keywords, and instead have them simply be reserved words. Source: Internet
There were also two stropping regimes. Source: Internet