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Cropper is slang for a fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.
Drifter who went from one railroad job to another, staying but a short time on each job or each road. This term dates back to pioneer days when men followed boom camps. The opposite is home guard. Boomers should not be confused with tramps, although they occasionally became tramps. Boomers were railroad workers often in big demand because of their wide experience, sometimes blackballed because their tenure of stay was uncertain. Their common practice was to follow the "rushes"-that is, to apply for seasonal jobs when and where they were most needed, when the movement of strawberry crops, watermelons, grain, etc., was making the railroads temporarily short-handed. There are virtually no boomers in North America today. When men are needed for seasonal jobs they are called from the extra board
Let a train run without braking. Wheeling means carrying or hauling at good speed; also called highballing. You say wheeling the berries when you mean hauling the berry crop at high speed
Come a cropper is British slang for to suffer a misfortune, to fall, to have an accident.
  Short, bristly haircut (denoting a recent stay in a prison or a workhouse)
That’s all of it
Come to ruin, fail, or fall heavily. "He had big plans to get rich, but it all became a cropper, when the railroad didn't come through."
n sudden failure. Only really used in the phrase “come a cropper,” e.g., Your uncle Arthur came a cropper on his motorcycle one evening after a few beers! It means something particularly bad has happened to the person in question. Most likely they died.
Died. Originated from the practice of the government reimbursing farmers for crops destroyed due to aviation accidents on their fields. The farmers, knowing a good thing when they see it, would inflate the value of lost crops to the point that, in effect, the mishap pilot “bought the farm.†Student pilots regularly practice emergency landings to farmer’s fields. (This one term must have a bazillion different origins judging from the amount of “corrections†I’ve received. I still like this one ed.)
Sick at the stomach, and figuratively, wretched, humiliated.
Low quality heroin
the outfit that a sealer who has “signed on†is allowed to on credit for the supplying merchant, usually tenor twelve dollars worth
low quality heroin
Crope is Dorset slang for crept.
To indulge in behaviours whilst young that are frowned on when adult, such as fequent changes in sexual partners. Hence the expression "To sow ones wild oats all Saturday night and spend all day Sunday praying for crop failure!"
A wide boy with a greasy French crop, football shirt and gold chains. (ed: what does a French crop look like?).
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v. t.
To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
n.
Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
n.
One that crops.
a.
Having the tail cropped.
n.
A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.
v. t.
To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
n.
The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.
n.
A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
superl.
Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.
a.
Having a full crop or belly; satiated.
n.
That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
n.
The act of gathering the vintage, or crop of grapes.
a.
Having the ears cropped.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Crop
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Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected.
imp. & p. p.
of Crop
n.
A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
n.
A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
v. t.
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.
n.
An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
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