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Definition: Crupper |
CrupperNoun1. A strap from the back of a saddle passing under the horse's tail; prevents saddle from slipping forward. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crupper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rear | Stern, poop, afterpart, heelpiece, crupper. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crupper |
| English words defined with "crupper": Crouper. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crupper": Grouper. (references) |
| "Crupper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crupper" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "crupper" 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 |
| Crupper | Last name | 130 | 64,806 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
crupper | 8 |
crupper jeff | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crupper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подопашник (kicking strap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 紂 (name of an emperor, saddle crupper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | staartriem. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | häntävyö. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | culeron, sous-queue. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schweifriemen, Schwanzriemen, kruppe (croup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κολοβός (croptailed, docked), χωρίς ουρά, οπίσθια ίππου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sottocoda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | therrag, brashlagh (brace, charlock, wild mustard), branshagh, agherey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uppercray correia da cauda. (various references) crupã (buttocks, croup, rump), pofil. (various references) gurpan. (various references) baticola. (various references) svanskappa. (various references) kuskun (backstrap), at sağrısı. (various references) pedrain (haunches). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crupper": cruppers. (additional references) | |
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"Crupper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crappen, crupe, cuppear, krupper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-p-p-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: cupper. | |
-2 letters: curer, purer, recur, upper. | |
-3 letters: cure, curr, ecru, perp, prep, puce, pure, purr, repp, ruer. | |
-4 letters: cep, cue, cup, cur, ecu, err, pec, pep, per, pup, pur, rec, rep, rue. | |
-5 letters: er, pe, re, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-p-p-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: cruppers. | |
+2 letters: curlpaper. | |
+3 letters: curlpapers. | |
+4 letters: precomputer, prepurchase, superscript. | |
+5 letters: precomputers, prepurchased, prepurchases, superscripts. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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