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cropper

[ krop-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

cropper

/ ˈkrɒpə /

a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
1. a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots
2. 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 conditions
a poor cropper on light land
often capital a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop
come a cropper informal.
come a cropper
1. to fall heavily
2. to fail completely

Origin of cropper¹

First recorded in 1475–85; crop + -er ¹

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

Despite some electoral successes, these efforts have largely come a cropper, especially with the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012.

It was a beastly cropper—this wedding mess—and I've gone to pieces over it, for I did love Rosamond awfully.

Crikey, you should 'a seen 'im come a cropper on his nut down them new steps.

She began to wonder very much what was the matter with Rupert, and guessed that he had "come an awful cropper" of some kind.

My colloquial Japanese comes a cropper now and then—but I get what I want, which is the main thing.

This view illustrates a double cropper in which both the spirals are controlled by one belt.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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