The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word STROPPED
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What does STROPPED mean?
STROPPED verb- To strap.
- (recorded since 1842; now most used) To hone (a razor) with a strop.
- 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.