cropper
Americannoun
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a person or thing that crops.
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a person who raises a crop.
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a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper.
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a plant that furnishes a crop.
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a cloth-shearing machine.
idioms
noun
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a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
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a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots
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a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip
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a machine for shearing the nap from cloth
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a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditions
a poor cropper on light land
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(often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop
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informal
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to fall heavily
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to fail completely
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Etymology
Origin of cropper
Example Sentences
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Reading the first few sentences of your letter, one thing was obvious: You and your sister would come a cropper on the subject of the fair market value of this house.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 19, 2026
And countless analyses have described how much the stock market’s advance owes to the AI-driven gains of the technology megacap names, and how much it will hurt if it comes a cropper.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
But Lulu's show came a cropper in 1969 when she booked the Jimi Hendrix Experience as her musical guests.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2022
I have six design apps on my phone, four GIF converters, three color-correction tools, a resizing app, a video cropper, photo filters, fonts, logos, and on and on.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018
"I think I'd better do that part of it, Grandmamma. You might come a cropper."
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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