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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(normally confined to the expression come a cropper) A fall, a tumble; a decided failure..
But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’
You're riding for a fall, Healey, you know that? There are hedges and ditches ahead and you are on course for an almighty cropper.
The mango tree cannot be regarded as a reliable cropper.
Use cropper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cropper means (normally confined to the expression come a cropper) A fall, a tumble; a decided failure..
Common synonyms include sharecropper, sharecrop farmer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’
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