cropper

plural croppers

1. A fall, a tumble; a decided failure.

   You're riding for a fall, Healey, you know that? There are hedges and ditches ahead and you are on course for an almighty cropper.

   1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section II, page 20

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   But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’

   1900, Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams”, in James Strachey, transl., Avon Books, page: 185

plural croppers

1. A breed of domestic pigeon with large crop.

plural croppers

1. A person who nurtures and gathers a crop.
2. A variety of plant producing a good harvest.

   The mango tree cannot be regarded as a reliable cropper.

   1901 July 5, “Coast Fruit”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 9, page 284

plural croppers

1. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a cropper.
2. An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Kentucky, United States, named after founder James Cropper.
3. A hamlet in Osleston and Thurvaston parish, South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2335).