Definitions for crop

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Spelling: [krop]

IPA: /krɒp/

Crop is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in crop (copr).

Definitions for crop

noun

1. the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:
2. the yield of such produce for a particular season.
3. the yield of some other product in a season:
4. a supply produced.
5. a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together:
6. the stock or handle of a whip.
7. Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.
8. Also called craw. Zoology. a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings. a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.
9. the act of cropping.
10. a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.
11. a close-cropped hair style.
12. a head of hair so cut.
13. an entire tanned hide of an animal.
14. Mining. an outcrop of a vein or seam.

Verb phrases

1. crop out, Geology, Mining. to rise to the surface of the ground: to become evident or visible; occur:
2. crop up, to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly:

verb (used with object)

1. to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).
2. to cut off the ends or a part of:
3. to cut short.
4. to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.
5. Photography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).
6. to cause to bear a crop or crops.
7. to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to bear or yield a crop or crops.
2. to feed by cropping or grazing.

Origin of crop

before 900; Middle English, Old English: “sprout, ear of wheat (or other grain), paunch, crown of a tree”; cognate with German Kropf; see croup²

Examples for crop

She is wearing a crop top, and Andrew has his arm wrapped around her waist.

I sold my crop on this day se'ennight, and sold it very well.

If he'd been beat off, there'd been trouble; the Stewards have got the other race in their crop a bit yet.

She looks uncannily like Mark, with a crop of soft dark curls.

The soil is hard, and the crop after the expenditure of much toil is often very scanty.

But since the crop is not grown domestically, it needs to be imported.

Now, every man who was a handful or two short of his crop began to look at us doubtfully.

Now as for these rotters, I'll plant a crop of fists on their faces.

But if you choose to conduct your discourse in 140-word snaps, or soundbites, then you reap the crop of dumb that you sow.

Now, she was handpicking a crop that was much lighter than previous years.