strop, noun2

Origin:: EnglishShow more Perhaps from strop noun1 (see quotation 1900 sense 1, and sense 2); or back-formation on general English stroppy obstreperous.

slang

Trouble; ‘back-chat’; uncooperative behaviour. See also to gooi strop (gooi sense 2).

1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 13And on top of it this ou chops me as I go past. So because I want to stuff him up, Carstens has a big shit from the bench. Says I mustn’t cause strop.

1987 P. Pollock in Personality 15 June 53‘These born-again women are much better than ordinary wives, they give you less strop,’ I told them.

Trouble; ‘back-chat’; uncooperative behaviour.

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strop, nounn.1struggle, nounn.

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