Lexicographical Neighbors of Stroppers
Literary usage of Stroppers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1920)
"Milne's Pharmacy, Montreal, enclosed its window with wall-board paneling, occupied
with razor stroppers hanging downward. On a large shelf down the front ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"... and five stroppers, engaged to shave seventy m»n in sixty minutes, and succeeded
in performing the task four minutes within the specified time. 2. ..."
3. The Real Dope by Ring Lardner (1919)
"Everybody called them Heinie and Fritz and I seen one of them give- ing me a look
like he was wondring if all the US soldiers was big stroppers like I but I ..."
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