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Definition: Cropper |
CropperNoun1. Small farmers and tenants. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cropper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | In Bright-leaf areas the term came to apply specifically to the tenant who furnished the labour, half the fertilizers and half the marketing costs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Cropper He came a cropper. He fell head over heels. To get a cropper. To get a bad fall. "Neck and crop" means altogether, and to "come a cropper" is to come to the ground neck and crop. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CropperSynonyms: sharecrop farmer (n), sharecropper (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Descent | Tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper. |
Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cropper |
| Specialty definitions using "cropper": Purler. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Share cropper" near Benton, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Cropper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 74.12% of the time. "Cropper" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 74.12% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Noun (proper) | 25.88% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cropper" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cropper | Last name | 2,000 | 6,606 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | James Cropper Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Cropper, KY |
Expressions using "cropper": come a cropper ♦ come down a cropper ♦ good cropper ♦ poor cropper ♦ share cropper. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cropper hopper | 49 |
steve cropper | 17 |
cropper | 14 |
cropper chevrolet | 4 |
cottage cropper | 4 |
cropper photo | 3 |
cropper mega | 3 |
cropper share | 2 |
james cropper | 2 |
cropper hopper tote | 2 |
cropper motor | 2 |
cropper generation ultimate | 2 |
cropper picture | 2 |
cropper medical | 2 |
big cropper | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cropper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kultivues (cultivator), korrës (harvester, reaper), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, crash, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse), bujk (agriculturist, farmer, hayseed, Hick, husbandman, tiller), bimë prodhuese (bearer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زارع الأرض, الحصادة آلة, الحصاد, إخفاق أو إنهيار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | косач (haymaker, mower), земеделец (agrarian, agriculturalist, agriculturist, farmer, husbandman, planter), жетварка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "割者 (harvestman, Harvestmen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | seknou sebou. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | overskaerer, digeltrykpresse (Minerva). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stukkenscheerder, droogscheerder-zetter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرت شدن (Overshoot), ماشین موزنی , برداشت کننده محصول . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tondeur de tapis, tabaculteur, se casser (crack), planter, moissonneuse, minerve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sturz (camber, collapse, dash, downfall, drop, fall, lintel, overthrow, plunge, precipitation, slump, spill, subversiveness, tumble, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μικρό πιεστήριο (Minerva), μινέρβα (Minerva), χειριστής ξυριστικής μηχανής ταπήτων, αναφαινόμενοσ (emergent), Αθηνά,μικρή τυπογραφική μηχανή (Minerva), θεριστήσ (harvester, harvestman, mower, reaper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | posztónyíró. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kehancuran (disintegration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coltivatore (agriculturist, farmer, grower, tiller), cimatore di tappeti, minerva (brace for neck injuries, cervical collar, collar, Minerva, neck brace, plaster collar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 소작인. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | calmane mooarscrobbagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oppercray cultivador (cultivator, grower), tosquiador (clipper), tosador de tapetes, minerva (minerva). (various references) culegãtor (compositor, picker, reaper, type setter), combinã (cabinet, combine), cãdere (authority, becomingness, break down, collapse, debacle, destruction, downfall, drop, failure, fall, labefaction, lapse, plump, rot, spill, Turkey), trecere (alley, credit, crossing, influence, Lane, March, pass, passage, passage way, passing, transit, transition, way, weight), secerãtoare (harvester, mower, reaper), autoritate (ascendency, authorities, authority, command, control, credit, faculty, force, governance, government, hold, importance, influence, jurisdiction, lordship, masterdom, mastery, power, rulership). (various references) косец (haymaker, mower), зобастый голубь (pouter), издольщик (metayer, sharecropper). (various references) potpun neuspeh, kosilica (lawn mower, lawnmower, mowing machine), fijasko (fiasco, fiascos, wash out), žetelac (harvester, reaper). (various references) cultivador (cultivator, farmer, grower, tiller), minerva (Minerva). (various references) skördare (feller-limber-bucker, harvester), odlare (cultivator, fancier, farmer, grower, plantation owner, planter, tiller). (various references) yıkım (bad, bane, blight, damnation, death, debacle, demolition, disaster, havoc, ravage, ruin, undoing, wrecking), kursağını şişirebilen güvercin, ekin (corn, crop, growing grain), bozgun (beating, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, fiasco, rout, stampede, upset), başarısızlık (abortion, balk, bankruptcy, baulk, bomb, bust, collapse, defeat, dud, failure, fizzle, flivver, frost, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, miscarriage, reverse, setback, throwback, unsuccess, washout). (various references) фермер (agriculturist, bonder, farmer, husbandman, rancher, ranchman), косар (mower, shearer), жнець (harvester, reaper). (various references) cây cho hoa lợi loại chim b" câu to diều người xén, người l m rẽ, máy xén người tá điền. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cropper": croppers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cropper": sharecropper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cropper": sharecroppers. (additional references) | |
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"Cropper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coreper, crappen, krupper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cropper" (pronounced krÄ"per) |
| 4 | -r Ä" p er | dropper, improper, proper. |
| 3 | -Ä" p er | bopper, chopper, copper, Hopper, Popper, shopper, stopper, Topper, whopper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-p-p-r-r" | |
-1 letter: copper, proper. | |
-2 letters: coper, corer, crore, repro, roper. | |
-3 letters: cero, cope, core, crop, pepo, perp, pope, pore, prep, prop, repo, repp, rope. | |
-4 letters: cep, cop, cor, err, ope, orc, ore, pec, pep, per, pop, pro, rec, rep, roc, roe. | |
-5 letters: er, oe, op, or, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-p-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: croppers. | |
+2 letters: cartopper, preceptor. | |
+3 letters: carpophore, carpospore, cartoppers, peppercorn, preceptors, preceptory, preprocess, pronephric, prospector, protreptic, rockhopper. | |
+4 letters: appreciator, carpophores, carpospores, dipterocarp, overcropped, peppercorns, precomputer, prospectors, protreptics, rockhoppers. | |
+5 letters: appreciators, appreciatory, carrottopped, coproprietor, coprosperity, dipterocarps, hypertrophic, intercropped, overcropping, petrographic, preceptorial, preceptories, precipitator, precomputers, preprocessed, preprocesses, preprocessor, prescription, proscriptive, reprographic, sharecropped, sharecropper, spectrograph, tropospheric. | |
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