cropperPronunciation: /ˈkrɒpə/Translate cropper | into German Definition of cropper 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 croppercropper in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of cropper in the US English dictionary