cropper

[ krop-er ]

/ ˈkrɒp ər /

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noun

a person or thing that crops.

a person who raises a crop.

a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper.

a plant that furnishes a crop.

a cloth-shearing machine.

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Idioms about cropper

come a cropper, Informal.

to fail; be struck by some misfortune: His big deal came a cropper.
to fall headlong, especially from a horse.

Origin of cropper

First recorded in 1475–85; crop + -er¹

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How to use cropper in a sentence

Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.
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These generally come from the outside, from cultural pressures and messages.
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But there is an underlying feeling that the worst is yet to come.
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My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.
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In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
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Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
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He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
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Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
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This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.
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British Dictionary definitions for cropper

cropper

/ (ˈkrɒpə) /

noun

a person who cultivates or harvests a crop

a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots
a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip

a machine for shearing the nap from cloth

a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditionsa poor cropper on light land

(often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop

come a cropper informal

to fall heavily
to fail completely

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