cropper

 
Pronunciation: /ˈkrɒpə/

noun

  • 1a plant which yields a specified crop: the white-fleshed varieties are the heaviest croppers
  • 2a machine or person that cuts or trims something.
  • 3chiefly US a person who raises a crop, especially as a sharecropper.

Phrases

come a cropper

British informal
fall heavily: he came the most appalling cropper—I think he knocked himself out
suffer a defeat or disaster: the club’s challenge for the championship has come a cropper