cropper (redirected from coming a cropper)

crop·per ¹  (krpr)

n.

A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.

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crop·per ²  (krpr)

n.

1. A heavy fall; a tumble.

2. A disastrous failure; a fiasco.

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[Perhaps from the phrase neck and crop, completely.]

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cropper [ˈkrɒpə]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a person who cultivates or harvests a crop

2. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering)

a.  a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots

b.  a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip

3. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a machine for shearing the nap from cloth

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditions a poor cropper on light land

5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) (often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop

come a cropper Informal

a.  to fall heavily

b.  to fail completely

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

cropper - small farmers and tenants             sharecrop farmer, sharecropper agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer - a person who tills the soil for a living

Translations

cropper [ˈkrɒpəʳ] N

1. to come a cropper (= fall) → darse un batacazo, cazar la liebre; (= fail) [person] → llevarse una buena plancha or un buen planchazo; [project] → irse al garete

2. (Agr) → agricultor(a) m/f
see also sharecropper

cropper [ˈkrɒpə^r] n
to come a cropper (= fall) → s'étaler > (= fail) → se planter >
crop sprayer [ˈkrɒpspreɪə^r] n

(= device) → pulvérisateur m

(= plane) → avion-pulvérisateur m
crop spraying [ˈkrɒpspreɪɪŋ] n → pulvérisation f des cultures
crop top n → petit top m

cropper

n

(= person) → Anbauer m; these plants are poor croppers → diese Pflanzen bringen nicht viel Ertrag

(Brit inf) to come a cropper (lit: = fall) → hinfliegen (inf); (fig: = fail) → auf die Nase fallen

cropper [ˈkrɒpəʳ] n (fam) to come a cropper (fall badly) → fare un capitombolo; (fail completely) → fare fiasco

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cropper [ˈkrɒpəʳ] n (fam) to come a cropper (fall badly) → fare un capitombolo; (fail completely) → fare fiasco