a person who cultivates or harvests a crop - come a cropper ⇒
to fall heavily to fail completely
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crop•per
(krop′ər),USA pronunciation n.
- a person or thing that crops.
- a person who raises a crop.
- a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop;
sharecropper. - Agriculturea plant that furnishes a crop.
- Textilesa cloth-shearing machine.
- Idioms come a cropper, [Informal.]
- to fail;
be struck by some misfortune:His big deal came a cropper. - to fall headlong, esp. from a horse.
- to fail;
- crop + -er1 1475–85
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