# What's the Correct Angle for Cutting With a Razor Called?

> The correct angle for cutting with a razor is called the cutting stroke. Texas barber exam haircutting answer, direct terminology reference.

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**The answer is the cutting stroke. That's the specific term for the correct blade angle when cutting.**

"Proper stroke," "freehand stroke," and "gliding stroke" all sound close, but none of them is the actual term used. Cutting stroke is worth locking in by name, since razor vocabulary — stroke, position, angle — tends to show up across more than one exam question, not just this one.

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