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crop

UK/kɹɒp/ US/kɹɔp/ fairly common slang
noun (5) verb (6)

noun

1.

the yield from plants in a single growing season

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2.

a collection of people or things appearing together

  • “the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas”
3.

the output of something in a season

  • “the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores”
4.

the stock or handle of a whip

5.

a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

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verb

1.

cut short

  • “She wanted her hair cropped short”
2.

prepare for crops

  • “Work the soil”
  • “cultivate the land”
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3.

yield crops

  • “This land crops well”
4.

let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

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5.

feed as in a meadow or pasture

  • “the herd was grazing”
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6.

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

  • “dress the plants in the garden”
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Origin

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.

Phrases

  • alley crop
  • bumper crop
  • cash crop
  • catch crop
  • cover crop
  • cream of the crop
  • cream the crop
  • crop circle
  • crop out
  • crop up

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