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cropper
crop·per 1 C0759900 (krŏp′ər)n. A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.
crop·per 2 C0759900 (krŏp′ər)n.1. A heavy fall; a tumble.2. A disastrous failure; a fiasco.
[Perhaps from the phrase neck and crop, completely.]cropper (ˈkrɒpə) n1. (Agriculture) a person who cultivates or harvests a crop2. (Mechanical Engineering) a. a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingotsb. a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip3. (Textiles) a machine for shearing the nap from cloth4. (Agriculture) a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditions: a poor cropper on light land. 5. (Breeds) (often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop6. come a cropper informal a. to fall heavilyb. to fail completelycrop•per (ˈkrɒp ər)
n. 1. one that crops. 2. a sharecropper. 3. a plant that furnishes a crop. Idioms: come a cropper, a. to fail decisively: His deal came a cropper. b. to fall headlong. [1475–85] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  cropper - small farmers and tenants sharecrop farmer, sharecropperagricultural laborer, agricultural labourer - a person who tills the soil for a living |
Translationscropper
come a cropper1. slang To fall down. Primarily heard in UK. These shoes are too big and caused me to come a cropper as I was walking down the street.2. slang To fail completely. Primarily heard in UK. Once heralded as a future star of the tech world, Shane came a cropper when his product proved to be a dud.See also: come, croppercome a cropperFig. to have a misfortune; to fail. (Meaning 'fall off one's horse.') Bob invested all his money in the stock market just before it fell. Boy, did he come a cropper. Jane was out all night before she took her final. She really came a cropper.See also: come, croppercome a cropper BRITISH, INFORMALCOMMON1. If someone comes a cropper, they suffer a sudden and embarrassing failure. Ferguson came a cropper when the economy collapsed. Scott must concentrate on learning his new trade. He will come a cropper if he thinks he knows it all before he starts. Banks dabbling in industry can easily come a cropper.2. If you come a cropper, you accidentally fall and hurt yourself. She came a cropper on the last fence. I came a cropper on a patch of ice just outside my house. Note: `Cropper' may come from the expression `to fall neck and crop', meaning to fall heavily. A bird's `crop' is a pouch in its throat where it keeps food before digesting it. See also: come, croppercome a cropper 1 fall heavily. 2 suffer a defeat or disaster. informal Sense 1 appears to have originated in mid 19th-century hunting jargon, and possibly came from the phrase neck and crop meaning ‘bodily’ or ‘completely’. 2 1980 Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse. See also: come, croppercome a ˈcropper (British English, informal)
1 fall (to the ground): Pete came a cropper on his motorbike and ended up in hospital.
2 fail badly, usually when you are expected to do well: She’s so confident she’ll pass her exams without doing any work, but I’ve got a feeling she’s going to come a real cropper.See also: come, cropper come a cropper To fail utterly.See also: come, croppercome a-cropperTo fail badly. “Cropper” comes from a horse's croup or crupper, the part of the animal's back behind the saddle. Someone who parted company from his horse (an involuntary dismount, so to speak) was said to fall “neck and crop.” That became “come a-cropper,” first appearing in the foxhunting author Robert S. Surtees' 1858 novel Ask Mamma: [He] “rode at an impracticable fence, and got a cropper for his pains.” The phrase was picked up and applied to any misadventure, equestrian or otherwise.See also: comecropper
cropper1. a. a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots b. a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip 2. a machine for shearing the nap from cloth 3. a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop Cropper
Related to Cropper: come a cropperCROPPER, contracts. One who, having no interest in the land, works it in consideration of receiving a portion of the crop for his labor. 2 Rawle, R. 12. cropper
Related to cropper: come a cropperSynonyms for croppernoun small farmers and tenantsSynonyms- sharecrop farmer
- sharecropper
Related Words- agricultural laborer
- agricultural labourer
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