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Total strop Trump's thrown on a regular basis (3,2)

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I believe the answer is:

tot up

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'total' is the definition.
(I know that total can be written as tot up)

'strop trump's thrown on a regular basis' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'on' could be 'to' and 'to' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'tup' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for tot up that I've seen before include "Tally" , "Sum - total" , "Reckon" , "Add (some numbers)" , "Determine the sum of" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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