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crop-duster

crop-duster is the alternative form of cropduster.

Meaning of cropduster

Noun

cropduster (plural cropdusters)

  1. An aircraft that carries out crop-dusting.
    • If Cary Grant ran by, chased by a malevolent cropduster, you might not be surprised.2007 May 27, John Anderson, “Blood and Crashes? Sounds Like Lynch”, in New York Times
  2. A species of cicada, Diemeniana frenchi, of south-east mainland Australia.

Forms of crop-duster

pluralcrop-dusters

Questions about crop-duster

What is crop-duster the alternative form of?
Crop-duster is the alternative form of cropduster.

Words near crop-duster in the dictionary

  1. crop top
  2. crop tops
  3. crop up
  4. crop-dust
  5. crop-dusted
  6. crop-duster
  7. crop-dusting
  8. crop-dustings
  9. crop-dusts
  10. crop-ear
  11. crop-ears

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crop-duster (page history and authors); cropduster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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