Cropper Definition

krŏpər
croppers
noun
croppers
A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.
American Heritage
A person or thing that crops.
Webster's New World
A machine or workman that cuts or shears leather, nap from cloth, etc.
Webster's New World
A sharecropper.
Webster's New World
A disastrous failure; a fiasco.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
pronoun

An English occupational surname​ for a cropper.

Wiktionary
idiom
come a cropper
  • to fall heavily or headlong
  • to come to ruin; fail
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cropper

Noun

Singular:
cropper
Plural:
croppers

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cropper

Origin of Cropper

  • Perhaps from the phrase neck and crop completely

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • an agricultural crop

    From Wiktionary

  • a bird's crop

    From Wiktionary

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