Definitions for cropper

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cropper crop·per

Spelling: [krop-er]

IPA: /ˈkrɒp ər/

Cropper is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in cropper (ceopprr).

Definitions for cropper

noun

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.

Idioms

1. come a cropper, Informal. to fail; be struck by some misfortune: to fall headlong, especially from a horse.

Origin of cropper

First recorded in 1475-85; crop + -er¹

Examples for cropper

There would be no second chance if you came a cropper the first time.

Stella nodded, "I came a cropper over Marian," Julian explained.

Once he had had great expectations, but alas!dad had just come a cropper.

A horseman had come a cropper a little distance down the lane.

Our favourite of all, was a large handsome pouter or cropper.

There is bound to come a cropper somewhere––usually where you least expect it.

He'll be redheaded if he knows I am to blame for his coming a cropper.

Yes, he could be sure of that; I had come one cropper that day, and it was enough.

Despite some electoral successes, these efforts have largely come a cropper, especially with the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012.

But as long as I had to come a cropper, why, I'm glad it was for no one less wonderful than you.