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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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