[krop-er] 
| 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. |
| 6. | come a cropper, Informal.
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| crop·per 1 (krŏp'ər) n. A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper. |
| crop·per 2 (krŏp'ər) n.
[Perhaps from the phrase neck and crop, completely.] |
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