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单词 cropper
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cropper

(krɒpəʳ)
See come a cropper

cropper in British English

(ˈkrɒpə)
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
a poor cropper on light land
5. (often capital)
a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop
6.  come a cropper

cropper in American English

(ˈkrɑpər)
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. 
a precipitate fall
now chiefly in come a cropper
Idioms:
come a cropper
Word origin
(sense 5) < ? phr. neck and crop

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Examples of 'cropper' in a sentence
cropper

Any horse can come a cropper in this game - at any time.
The Sun (2016)
It is easy to come a cropper when negative numbers are involved.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It is liked by the trade as it is a heavy cropper and is a familiar sight at many farm shops.
Smith, Drew Food Watch (1994)
I can see myself coming a cropper in years to come.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It's a reliably heavy cropper.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A heavy cropper, it produces a compact tree.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A reliable and prolific cropper with about 8-10 shallots from each plant.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But if you're not careful, you can really come a cropper.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
You'll come a cropper '.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Perhaps one of the reasons why Australia and not England have come a cropper is that they thought they would win comfortably.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
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