| Cropper 1. (n.) One that crops. 2. (n.) A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter. 3. (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth. 4. (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. Thesaurus Entries Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, breakdown, coffee-planter, collapse, collective farm worker, comedown, crash, crofter, culbute, cultivator, deflation, dirt farmer, dive, downfall, dry farmer, fall, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, flop, forced landing, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, header, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, nose dive, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, plunge, pratfall, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, smash, sower, spill, sprawl, stumble, tailspin, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, trip, truck farmer, tumble, yeoman |