cropper
cropper definition
crop·per (-ər)
noun
- a person or thing that crops
- a machine or workman that cuts or shears leather, nap from cloth, etc.
- a sharecropper
- a plant that yields a crop
Etymology: < ? phr. neck and crop
a precipitate fall: now chiefly in come a cropper (see phr. below)
cropper Idioms
come a cropper
Informal- to fall heavily or headlong
- to come to ruin; fail
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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