cropper: Meaning and Definition of

crop•per

1. a person or thing that crops.
2. a person who raises a crop.
3. a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper.
4. a plant that furnishes a crop.
5. a cloth-shearing machine.
6. His big deal came a cropper.
1. to fail; be struck by some misfortune:His big deal came a cropper.
2. to fall headlong, esp. from a horse.