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- DictionaryCrop·per/ˈkräpər/
noun
- 1. a plant which yields a specified crop: "the white-fleshed varieties are the heaviest croppers"
- 2. a machine or person that cuts or trims something.
Apr 24, 2024 · noun. 1. a person who cultivates or harvests a crop. 2. a. a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots. b. a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip. 3. a machine for shearing the nap from cloth. 4. a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditions.
Add to word list. to fail badly, or to fall from a horse or have a bad accident in a vehicle: If outside buyers or suppliers lose faith, a company can come a cropper very quickly. She came an almighty cropper when her back wheels hit an icy patch. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples.
noun. uk / ˈkrɒpə r/ us. come a cropper. Add to word list Add to word list. to fall over: The horse came a cropper at the first fence. to fail in an embarrassing way, or to make an embarrassing mistake: He came a cropper because he'd forgotten to bring the notes for his speech. (Definition of cropper from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary ...
Define cropper. cropper synonyms, cropper pronunciation, cropper translation, English dictionary definition of cropper. n. A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper. n. 1. A heavy fall; a tumble. 2. A disastrous failure; a fiasco.
CROPPER meaning: 1 : to fail completely in a sudden or unexpected way; 2 : to have a very bad fall
Apr 26, 2024 · 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. a precipitate fall. now chiefly in come a cropper. Idioms: come a cropper. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Dictionary Meanings. Cropper Definition. krŏpər. croppers. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Word Forms. Origin. Noun. Pronoun. Idiom. Filter. 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. Similar definitions.
