crop

1. the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:

   the wheat crop.

2. the yield of such produce for a particular season.
3. the yield of some other product in a season:

   the crop of diamonds.

4. a supply produced.
5. a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together:

   this year's crop of students.

6. the stock or handle of a whip.
7. Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.
8. Also called craw. Zoology.
   1. a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.
   2. a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.
9. the act of cropping.
10. a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.
11. a close-cropped hairstyle.
12. a head of hair so cut.
13. an entire tanned hide of an animal.
14. Mining. an outcrop of a vein or seam.

1. to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).
2. to cut off the ends or a part of:

   to crop the ears of a dog.

3. to cut short:

   cropped t-shirts.

4. to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.
5. Photography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).
6. to cause to bear a crop or crops.
7. to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.):

   The sheep cropped the lawn.

1. to bear or yield a crop or crops.
2. to feed by cropping or grazing.

1. (of women’s casual garments) shorter than is usual:

   a crop top that bares your midriff;

   crop pants that end at mid-calf.

verb phrase

1. to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly:

   A new problem cropped up.

2. 1. Geology, Mining. to rise to the surface of the ground:

      Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.

   2. to become evident or visible; occur:

      A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.