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neck and crop

neck and crop adverb: bodily (and with force); completely, altogether.

Adverb

neck and crop (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Bodily (and with force); completely, altogether.
    • She turned him neck and crop out of the house.
    • "They turned her out into the street neck and crop."1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 41”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    neck and heels

Synonyms of neck and crop

Origin of neck and crop

Uncertain, but crop may refer to the backside of a horse, so that a horse that fell neck and crop had both its neck and backside hit the ground.

Questions about neck and crop

What does neck and crop mean?
Neck and crop means bodily (and with force); completely, altogether.
What part of speech is neck and crop?
Neck and crop is an adverb.

Words near neck and crop in the dictionary

  1. Nechepurenko
  2. Neches
  3. Nechtan
  4. necitumumab
  5. neck
  6. neck and crop
  7. neck and heels
  8. neck and neck
  9. neck badge
  10. neck bearing
  11. neck bearings

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