cropper
[ krop-er ]
/ ˈkrɒp ər /
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 for cropper
- to fail; be struck by some misfortune: His big deal came a cropper.
- to fall headlong, especially from a horse.
come a cropper, Informal.
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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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