Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavy fall; a tumble.
- noun A disastrous failure; a fiasco.
- noun A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Perhaps from the phrase neck and crop, completely.]
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