cropper

(-ər)

noun

  1. a person or thing that crops
  2. a machine or workman that cuts or shears leather, nap from cloth, etc.
  3. a sharecropper
  4. a plant that yields a crop
  5. Origin: < ? phr. neck and crop

    a precipitate fall: now chiefly in come a cropper (see phr. below)

See cropper in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.

noun
  1. A heavy fall; a tumble.
  2. A disastrous failure; a fiasco.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps from the phrase neck and crop, completely

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