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crop·per
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ər
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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, especially from a horse.
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Origin:
1475–85;
crop
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cropper
(ˈkrɒpə)
—
n
1.
a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
2.
a. a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots
b. a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip
3.
a machine for shearing the nap from cloth
4.
a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditions:
a poor cropper on light land
5.
(
often capital
) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop
6.
informal
come a cropper
a. to fall heavily
b. to fail completely
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