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Definitions for Cropper

[1] a person or thing that crops.
[2] a person who raises a crop.
[3] a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper.
[4] a plant that furnishes a crop.
[5] a cloth-shearing machine.
[6] come a cropper , Informal . to fail; be struck by some misfortune: His big deal came a cropper. to fall headlong, especially from a horse.
[7] a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
[8] a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip
[9] a machine for shearing the nap from cloth
[10] a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditions a poor cropper on light land
[11] (often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop
[12] come a cropper informal to fall heavily to fail completely

Words related to Cropper

laborer, sharecropper, crunch, barrier, difficulty, inconvenience, drawback, holdup, hitch, glitch, obstacle, impediment, hurdle, bug, disadvantage, drop, slump, recession, failure, deterioration

Words nearby Cropper

crop up, crop-dust, crop-dusting, crop-eared, cropland, cropper, croppie, cropt, croquembouche, croquet, croquette

Origin of Cropper

First recorded in 1475–85; crop + -er1

Synonyms for Cropper

laborer, sharecropper, boor, bumpkin, farmhand, hayseed, hick, peon, planter, provincial, rube, rustic, serf, villein, countryman/woman, hired hand