Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense crops, present participle cropping, past tense, past participle cropped
1. countable noun
Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food.
Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand.
The main crop is wheat and this is grown even on the very steep slopes.
2. See also cash crop
3. countable noun
The plants or fruits that are collected at harvest time are referred to as a crop.
Each year it produces a fine crop of fruit. [+ of]
This year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year.
In the Middle Ages, years of crop failure were always followed by terrible disease.
4. singular noun
You can refer to a group of people or things that have appeared together as a crop of people or things.
[informal]
The present crop of books and documentaries about Marilyn Monroe exploit the thirtiethanniversary of her death. [+ of]
Some of this year's crop of graduates are on a fast-track recruitment scheme.
Synonyms: batch, set, lot, pack More Synonyms of crop
5. verb
When a plant crops, it produces fruits or parts which people want.
Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to croppoorly. [VERB]
6. verb
When you crop something that you have planted, you collect the fruits or parts that you want fromit.
I started cropping my beans in July. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: harvest, pick, collect, gather More Synonyms of crop
7. verb
When an animal such as a cow or horse crops leaves or plants, it eats them.
I let the horse drop his head to crop the spring grass. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: graze, eat, browse, feed on More Synonyms of crop
8. verb
To crop someone's hair means to cut it short.
She cropped her hair and dyed it blonde. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: cut, reduce, trim, clip More Synonyms of crop
croppedadjective
She had cropped grey hair.
9. countable noun [usually singular]
A crop is a short hairstyle.
She had her long hair cut into a boyish crop.
10. verb
If you crop a photograph, you cut part of it off, in order to get rid of part of the picture or to be able to frame it.
I decided to crop the picture just above the water line. [VERB noun]
Her husband was cropped from the photograph. [beVERB-ed + from]
[Also VERB noun from noun]
11. the cream of the crop
Phrasal verbs:
See crop up
More Synonyms of crop
crop in British English
(krɒp)
noun
1.
the produce of cultivated plants, esp cereals, vegetables, and fruit
2.
a.
the amount of such produce in any particular season
b.
the yield of some other farm produce
the lamb crop
3.
a group of products, thoughts, people, etc, appearing at one time or in one season
a crop of new publications
4.
the stock of a thonged whip
5. short for riding crop
6.
a.
a pouchlike expanded part of the oesophagus of birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing on to the gizzard
b.
a similar structure in insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates
7.
the entire tanned hide of an animal
8.
a short cropped hairstyle
See also Eton crop
9.
a notch in or a piece cut out of the ear of an animal
10.
the act of cropping
verbWord forms: crops, cropping or cropped(mainly tr)
11.
to cut (hair, grass, etc) very short
12.
to cut and collect (mature produce) from the land or plant on which it has been grown
13.
to clip part of (the ear or ears) of (an animal), esp as a means of identification
14. (also intr)
to cause (land) to bear or (of land) to bear or yield a crop
the land cropped well
15.
(of herbivorous animals) to graze on (grass or similar vegetation)
16. photography
to cut off or mask unwanted edges or areas of (a negative or print)
Word origin
Old English cropp; related to Old Norse kroppr rump, body, Old High German kropf goitre, Norwegian kröypa to bend
crop in American English
(krɑp)
noun
1.
a saclike enlargement of a bird's gullet or of a part of the digestive tract of earthworms and some insects, in which food is stored before digestion; craw
2.
any agricultural product, growing or harvested, or collected, as wheat, cotton, fruit, honey, etc.
3.
the yield of any product in one season or place
4.
a group or collection appearing together
a new crop of students
5.
the entire tanned hide of an animal
6.
the handle or butt of a whip
7.
a stick with a handle at one end and a thong or tab at the other, used to direct a horse in horseback riding
8.
the act or result of cropping
, esp.
a.
hair cut close to the head
b.
this style of haircut
c.
an earmark on an animal, made by clipping
verb transitiveWord forms: cropped or ˈcropping
9.
to cut off or bite off the tops or ends of
sheep crop grass
10.
to grow or harvest as a crop
11.
to cause crops to grow on or in
12.
to cut (hair, etc.) short
13.
to cut short the ears, hair, etc. of
verb intransitive
14.
to bear a crop or crops
15. US
to plant or grow a crop
16.
to feed by cropping grass, etc.; graze
Idioms:
crop out
Word origin
ME croppe < OE croppa, a cluster, flower, crop of bird, hence kidney, pebble; akin to Frank *kruppa, Ger kropf, a swelling, crop of bird (basic sense “something swelling out or swollen”) < IE*gr-eu-b-, curving out < base *ger-: see cradle
More idioms containing
crop
the cream of the crop
COBUILD Collocations
crop
current crop
Examples of 'crop' in a sentence
crop
It produces a reliable crop of large berries.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The first major auction of this year 's crop was held last week after a poor year for growers.
The Sun (2016)
Many gardeners prune straight after harvest, then they can prune any branches damaged by a heavy crop of fruit.
The Sun (2016)
I can't wait to get cracking on next year 's crop and see what that might bring.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He impresses as a football pundit on TV and would undoubtedly command the respect of the current crop of England players.
The Sun (2016)
Opinion differs as to what the significance of all this hair cropping is.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They were replaced with either crops or grazing land for livestock.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The result was a very large crop of wheat and corn.
Thompkins, Peter, Bird, Christopher Secrets of the Soil (1990)
They just grew commodity crops and received fixed prices for their milk and corn in return.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The crop of young people not in education or employment is festering.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Plant breeders are also helping by introducing disease resistance in crops like potatoes.
The Sun (2012)
The two world wars inevitably produced a huge crop of memorable maps.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
You only have to look at the current crop of players in his squad.
The Sun (2012)
They are noisy and eat fruit crops so they are seen as a nuisance.
The Sun (2015)
This will put back any nutrients taken by your crops.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Players raise virtual crops and animals and buy farm equipment.
The Sun (2011)
It will have its first heavy crop this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The flint paths give way to cropped grass and there is an absence of fences.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The countryside is now so wet that crops cannot be harvested.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
What message is he sending the present crop of players on which he is reliant?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
His skull showed pink through the closely cropped hair.
Len Deighton Bomber
Others with poor soil might use the land for industrial crops.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Growing annual grain crops such as wheat over lengthy periods inevitably leads to soil damage.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The crop is just beginning to flourish.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But this is only a crop for people who are prepared to take quite a bit of trouble.
Kitto, Dick Planning the Organic Vegetable Garden (1986)
The bad weather has also hurt the corn crop, which has driven up inflation.
Christianity Today (2000)
As the party managers selected the cream of the crop, the group would dissolve.
Simon Ball THE GUARDSMEN (2004)
A large part of their effort was devoted to growing subsistence crops, mainly corn.
Divine, Robert A. (editor) & Breen, T. H & Frederickson, George M & Williams, R. Hal America Past and Present (1995)
She said of the new crop: 'I cut all my hair off two days ago.
The Sun (2013)
France had a petite crop and parts of Spain were way below normal... and so it goes on.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Word lists with
crop
hairstyle
In other languages
crop
British English: crop /krɒp/ NOUN
Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food.
Farmers here still plant their crops by hand.
American English: crop
Arabic: مَحْصُول
Brazilian Portuguese: colheita
Chinese: 农作物
Croatian: usjev
Czech: plodina
Danish: afgrøde
Dutch: gewas
European Spanish: cultivo
Finnish: vilja
French: cultures
German: Feldfrucht
Greek: συγκομιδή
Italian: raccolto
Japanese: 農作物
Korean: 농작물
Norwegian: avling
Polish: uprawa
European Portuguese: colheita
Romanian: recoltă
Russian: урожай
Latin American Spanish: cosecha
Swedish: skörd
Thai: ผลผลิต
Turkish: ürün
Ukrainian: сільськогосподарська культура
Vietnamese: cây trồng
British English: crop VERB
When a plant crops, it produces fruits or parts which people want.
Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.
American English: crop
Brazilian Portuguese: surgir
Chinese: 收获
European Spanish: cultivarse
French: donner des fruits
German: Früchte tragen
Italian: dare un raccolto
Japanese: 作物ができる
Korean: 농작물이 잘 되다
European Portuguese: produzir culturas
Latin American Spanish: cultivarse
All related terms of 'crop'
crop up
If something crops up , it appears or happens , usually unexpectedly.
cash crop
A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold .
crop out
(of a formation of rock strata ) to appear or be exposed at the surface of the ground ; outcrop
crop top
A crop top is a very short, usually tight , top worn by a girl or a woman .
Eton crop
a short mannish hairstyle worn by women in the 1920s
food crop
a crop , such as rice or wheat , that is grown for human consumption
root crop
a crop , as of turnips or beets , cultivated for the food value of its roots
catch crop
a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons , or between two rows of regular crops in the same season
cover crop
a crop planted between main crops to prevent leaching or soil erosion or to provide green manure
crop circle
any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field
crop-eared
having the ears or hair cut short
energy crop
a crop that is grown because it can be used as fuel
field crop
any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields : primarily a grain , forage , sugar , oil, or fiber crop
riding crop
a short whip with a thong at one end and a handle for opening gates at the other
crop-dusting
the process of spraying growing crops with pesticides from an airplane
crop failure
a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
crop rotation
the system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility
crop sprayer
a device for spraying crops
crop spraying
the spraying of crops with insecticide , fungicide , etc
current crop
You can refer to a group of people or things that have appeared together as a crop of people or things.
neck and crop
completely; entirely
subsistence crop
a food plant which is grown by farmers for consumption by themselves and their family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
cream of the crop
the best of a group
single-crop farming
the continuous growing of one type of crop
federal crop insurance
insurance against the failure of certain crops provided to farmers and producers by the Federal Government
corn circle
any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field
the cream of the crop
You can refer to the best people or things of a particular kind as the cream of the crop .