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cropper

/krop-er/US // ˈkrɒp ər //UK // (ˈkrɒpə) //

庄稼人,农夫,裁员,庄稼汉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : a plant that furnishes a crop.
    • : a cloth-shearing machine.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as insnag
as incomedown
as indecline
as infarmer

Examples

  • Despite some electoral successes, these efforts have largely come a cropper, especially with the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012.

  • It was a beastly cropper—this wedding mess—and I've gone to pieces over it, for I did love Rosamond awfully.

  • Crikey, you should 'a seen 'im come a cropper on his nut down them new steps.

  • She began to wonder very much what was the matter with Rupert, and guessed that he had "come an awful cropper" of some kind.

  • My colloquial Japanese comes a cropper now and then—but I get what I want, which is the main thing.

  • This view illustrates a double cropper in which both the spirals are controlled by one belt.