There was no longer any chance for the wildness of the beast to crop out.
A "blind lead" is a lead or ledge that does not "crop out" above the surface.
Nor is he subject to the wild impulses that often crop out in the Italian or the Slav.
"When they have been sent neck and crop out of North America," growled Jim.
Where it does not crop out, it lies from 30 to 50 feet below the surface.
Ive been afraid a long time it was going to crop out in Hal.
Sooner or later our dislike will crop out and a gulf be made.
They might even be said to crop out with remarkable frequency.
For a little while you may think you have got the better of it; but it will crop out in spite of you.
We are to recognize struggling genius wherever it may crop out.
Old English cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." The common notion is "protuberance." Cognate with Old High German kropf, Old Norse kroppr. Meaning "harvest product" is c.1300, probably through the verbal meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c.1200).
"cut off the top of a plant," c.1200, from crop (n.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is mid-15c. Related: Cropped; cropping. Women's fashion crop top is attested from 1984.