Cropper

Word CROPPER
Character 7
Hyphenation crop per
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Cropper"

What do we mean by cropper?

(normally confined to the expression come a cropper) A fall, a tumble.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Cropper

The word "cropper" in example sentences

Thus the cropper was a worker, not an owner; his status was halfway between a kind of serfdom and the autonomy of ownership. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

Humor likes to explode pretension, pedantry, dignity, pomposity; we get a feeling of joy whenever those who are superior come a cropper, which is increased when we feel that they have no right to their places. ❋ Unknown (1921)

But it probably doesn't affect anything even remotely, except to boost the morale of the looney Fascists of Hamas, their Euro-wally supporters, et al. But that is not necessarily bad, it may encourage them to get over-confident, over-step "the mark" and come the proverbial "cropper". ❋ Unknown (2009)

The "cropper" is barely a step advanced above the laborer, for he, too, furnishes nothing but labor, while the landlord supplies house, tools, live stock, and seed. ❋ Samuel Peter Orth (1897)

There would be no 'cropper' which a man could 'come' so bad as would be his cropper were he to marry Marie Melmotte, and then find that he was not to have a shilling! ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

a well-developed "cropper;" his dromedary had put its foot in a hole, and had fallen with a suddenness generally unknown to the cameline race. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

"It isn't the first 'cropper' I have come; I shouldn't have minded at all, only for my head. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

In the same way I do not rejoice at the news that Johann Hari, my old bête noire, who I last saw only to vent my spleen over the Iraq War has come a cropper over what I suspected to be his record of plagiarising other peoples work. ❋ Mark Seddon (2011)

It was evident that somewhere between April 18th and May 5th Tom had come a cropper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Neither will your overlords react well to martyrdom – the stifled sob as you cancel a holiday at the last minute, the exaggerated limp as you fling yourself through the door having come a cropper in the snowy wastes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the same way I do not rejoice at the news that Johann Hari, my old bête noire, who I last saw only to vent my spleen over the Iraq War has come a cropper over what I suspected to be his record of plagiarising other peoples work. ❋ Mark Seddon (2011)

Carl Levin's political witch hunt comes a cropper. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

That all this is conveyed through the viewpoint of a mere blip on the universe's map -- a low-level drug dealer, Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), who comes a-cropper of a botched drug bust and ends up on the wrong end of a cop's gun -- lends what follows no little ironic impact. ❋ Dan Persons (2010)

Subtle play often comes a cropper faced with Route One tactics in these head to heads. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Evans seems to be suggesting that everyone comes a cropper on this at some point or another. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"When you think about (Harry) Truman — he comes a cropper over Korea," a conflict that undercut his presidency, says Robert Dallek, a presidential biographer and one of the historians at the dinner. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In addition if we dont put the 2 tones on (in an attempt to not warn the burglar that we are coming) and come a cropper then we are 40% responsible for the collision straight off. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

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