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cropper

Syllabification: (crop·per)
Pronunciation: /ˈkräpər/
Translate cropper | into German
Definition of cropper

noun

  • 1a plant that yields a crop of a specified kind or in a specified way:the white-fleshed varieties are the heaviest croppers
  • 2a machine or person that cuts or trims something, such as wool off a sheep or the pile of a carpet during manufacture.
  • 3chiefly US a person who raises a crop, especially as a sharecropper.

Phrases

come a cropper

informal fall heavily.
suffer a defeat or disaster:the club’s challenge for the championship has come a cropper

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