cropper

[ krop-er ]

/ ˈkrɒp ər /

SEE SYNONYMS FOR cropper ON THESAURUS.COM

noun

a person or thing that crops.

a person who raises a crop.

a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper.

a plant that furnishes a crop.

a cloth-shearing machine.

Idioms for cropper

come a cropper, Informal.

to fail; be struck by some misfortune: His big deal came a cropper.
to fall headlong, especially from a horse.

Origin of cropper

First recorded in 1475–85; crop + -er¹

Words nearby cropper

crop-dusting, crop-eared, cropland, crop milk, crop out, cropper, croppie, crop rotation, cropt, crop top, crop up

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Example sentences from the Web for cropper

Despite some electoral successes, these efforts have largely come a cropper, especially with the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012.
Libertarianism 3.0: Koch And A Smile|Nick Gillespie|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I came on her here when she had ridden her horse half to death and they had both come a cropper.
The Shuttle|Frances Hodgson Burnett
Do you know, I fancy the Frenches have come rather a cropper to-day.
The Land of Strong Men|Arthur M. Chisholm
Why he only had two stumbles, and one cropper, doing his three hundred yards this morning.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Nov. 1, 1890|Various

If "he came a cropper" in this matter, it would be such an awful cropper!
The Way We Live Now|Anthony Trollope
But somewhere in it I came what our English friends call a most awful "cropper."
Memoirs of an American Prima Donna|Clara Louise Kellogg

British Dictionary definitions for cropper

cropper

/ (ˈkrɒpə) /

noun

a person who cultivates or harvests a crop

a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots
a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip

a machine for shearing the nap from cloth

a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditionsa poor cropper on light land

(often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop

come a cropper informal

to fall heavily
to fail completely

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单词	cropper
释义	cropper [ krop-er ] / ˈkrɒp ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR cropper ON THESAURUS.COM noun a person or thing that crops. a person who raises a crop. a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper. a plant that furnishes a crop. a cloth-shearing machine. Idioms for cropper come a cropper, Informal. to fail; be struck by some misfortune: His big deal came a cropper. to fall headlong, especially from a horse. Origin of cropper First recorded in 1475–85; crop + -er¹ Words nearby cropper crop-dusting, crop-eared, cropland, crop milk, crop out, cropper, croppie, crop rotation, cropt, crop top, crop up Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cropper Despite some electoral successes, these efforts have largely come a cropper, especially with the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012. Libertarianism 3.0: Koch And A Smile\|Nick Gillespie\|May 30, 2014\|DAILY BEAST I came on her here when she had ridden her horse half to death and they had both come a cropper. The Shuttle\|Frances Hodgson Burnett Do you know, I fancy the Frenches have come rather a cropper to-day. The Land of Strong Men\|Arthur M. Chisholm Why he only had two stumbles, and one cropper, doing his three hundred yards this morning. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Nov. 1, 1890\|Various If "he came a cropper" in this matter, it would be such an awful cropper! The Way We Live Now\|Anthony Trollope But somewhere in it I came what our English friends call a most awful "cropper." Memoirs of an American Prima Donna\|Clara Louise Kellogg British Dictionary definitions for cropper cropper / (ˈkrɒpə) / noun a person who cultivates or harvests a crop a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip a machine for shearing the nap from cloth a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditionsa poor cropper on light land (often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop come a cropper informal to fall heavily to fail completely Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to cropper laborer, sharecropper, crunch, stumbling block, barrier, difficulty, inconvenience, drawback, holdup, hitch, glitch, obstacle, impediment, hurdle, bug, disadvantage, drop, slump, recession, failure
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cropper

noun

Idioms for cropper

Origin of cropper

Words nearby cropper

Example sentences from the Web for cropper

British Dictionary definitions for cropper

noun

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