Definizione monolingua

cropper

cropper (plural croppers)

1. a fall; see come a cropper
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 185:

     But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’

Definizione dizionario cropper

coltivatore

Altri significati:

a variety of plant producing a good harvest

a breed of domestic pigeon with large crop

a fall; see come a cropper

a person who nurtures and gathers a crop