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cropper definition

crop·per (-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. Etymology: < ? phr. neck and crop

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

come a cropper

Informal
  1. to fall heavily or headlong
  2. to come to ruin; fail

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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