Dictionary![]() ![]() crop•perPronunciation: (krop'ur), [key] —n. 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. a. to fail; be struck by some misfortune: His big deal came a cropper. b. to fall headlong, esp. from a horse. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
|