coming a cropper

crop·per¹ (kr

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

crop·per² (kr

1. A heavy fall; a tumble.

2. A disastrous failure; a fiasco.

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

cropper [ˈkrɒpə]

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

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Noun

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

(= 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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The row followed Saturday's show being marred by a stage invasion and Jedward almost coming a cropper.

WRECKS FACTOR; SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER REALITY TV TROUBLES by The Mirror (London, England)

PORTSMOUTH know they have to stay focused in Portugal tonight after almost coming a cropper against Braga's neighbours Vitoria Guimaraes in the UEFA Cup first round - despite building a 2-0 lead in the home leg.

IN BRIEF: Redknapp wary by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

Now Stewart Gledhill of Golcar asks if coming a cropper could also be a textile term that has entered into common parlance?

Words woven into our language by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)

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