cropper

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  1. noun A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.
  2. noun A heavy fall; a tumble.
  3. noun A disastrous failure; a fiasco.

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  • ‘Some ill-natured lout smears grease on stone steps and an unsuspecting woman comes a cropper, but it didn’t happen here and is no business of ours. —  Here Lies Gloria Mundy - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 61
  • It seems as if the next thing to come a cropper were capital: now there are no more kings to speak of. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • And then we came a cropper, and we said you know what? —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • Another speaker, California state Sen. Abel Maldonado, suggested his father, a share-cropper, could teach Obama about economics. —  Latest News - UPI.com
  • Alas women are much more prone to this than guys and that's where I usually come a cropper, so I tended in the past to avoid even trying to relate to women - too weird, too different, not enough in it for me. —  Autism Hub
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  1. Perhaps from the phrase neck and crop, completely.

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  1. from crop, n., 4, + -er.
  2. from crop, v., + -er.
  3. Origin uncertain.
  4. See the def.
 

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/ˈkrɑpər/
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