stropping
Speech parts
1. stropping - Noun
2. stropping - Verb
Derived from strop
Meaning
of Strop
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
When 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.
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.
However, one stropping regime was to not strope the keywords, and instead have them simply be reserved words.
There were also two stropping regimes.