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cropper

cropper noun: a fall, a tumble; a decided failure.

Noun (1)

cropper (plural croppers)

  1. A fall, a tumble; a decided failure.
    • 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.’1900, Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams”, in James Strachey, transl., Avon Books, page: 185
    • 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.1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section II, page 20

Noun (2)

cropper (plural croppers)

  1. A breed of domestic pigeon with large crop.

Noun (3)

cropper (plural croppers)

  1. A person who nurtures and gathers a crop.
  2. A variety of plant producing a good harvest.
    • The mango tree cannot be regarded as a reliable cropper.1901 July 5, “Coast Fruit”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 9, page 284

Noun (4)

cropper (plural croppers)

  1. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

Proper noun capitalized: Cropper

Cropper

  1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a cropper.
  2. An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Kentucky, United States, named after founder James Cropper.
  3. A hamlet in Osleston and Thurvaston parish, South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2335).

cropper meaning in Tamil and Kannada

cropper in Tamil

கத்தரிப்பான், நறுக்கி

cropper in Kannada

ಬೀಳುಹ, ಸೋಲು

Forms of cropper

pluralcroppers

Plural of cropper: croppers

Origin of cropper

See come a cropper.

From crop + -er, in reference to a bird's crop.

From crop + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational suffix), in reference to agricultural crops.

Words formed from cropper

Phrases with cropper

Words that rhyme with cropper

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Questions about cropper

What does cropper mean?
Cropper means a fall, a tumble; a decided failure.
What is cropper in Tamil?
Cropper in Tamil is கத்தரிப்பான், நறுக்கி. See Cropper meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cropper?
Cropper can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cropper?
The plural of cropper is croppers.

Words near cropper in the dictionary

  1. Croppa Creek
  2. croppable
  3. cropped
  4. cropped out
  5. cropped up
  6. cropper
  7. croppers
  8. croppest
  9. croppeth
  10. croppie
  11. croppies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cropper (page history and authors); Cropper (page history and authors); cropper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cropper (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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