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crop⋅per

   [krop-er]
–noun
1. a person or thing that crops.
2. a person who raises a crop.
3. a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper.
4. a plant that furnishes a crop.
5. a cloth-shearing machine.
—Idiom
6. come a cropper, Informal.
a. to fail; be struck by some misfortune: His big deal came a cropper.
b. to fall headlong, esp. from a horse.
Origin:
1475–85; crop + -er 1
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crop·per 1     (krŏp'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.
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crop·per 2     (krŏp'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A heavy fall; a tumble.
  2. A disastrous failure; a fiasco.

[Perhaps from the phrase neck and crop, completely.]
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cropper

noun
small farmers and tenants [syn: sharecropper] 

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Cropper

Crop"per\ (kr?p"p?r), n. 1. One that crops.

2. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.

3. (Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

4. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.]

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