cropper
See also: Cropper
English
Etymology 1
See come a cropper.
Noun
cropper (plural croppers)
- (normally confined to the expression come a cropper) A fall, a tumble; a decided failure.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams”, in James Strachey, transl., Avon Books, page: 185:
- 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.’
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 29:
- 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.
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Etymology 3
crop + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational suffix), in reference to agricultural crops.
Noun
cropper (plural croppers)
- A person who nurtures and gathers a crop.
- A variety of plant producing a good harvest.
Noun
cropper (plural croppers)
- A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
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