Meaning

The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped..

Definitions by Sense

1. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
2. (obsolete outside dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.
3. (pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.

Example Sentences

So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.

The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.

Curved like a stallion's croup, from dusk to dawn, / And drums upon it with his heels, whereby / Is bred the neighing thunder in the hills.

Yes; I've nursed five children and buried three; and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, […].

Percy Northumberland Driscoll[…]had had children around his hearthstone; but they were attacked in detail by measles, croup and scarlet fever, and this had given the doctor a chance with his effective antediluvian methods; so the cradles were empty.

Word Forms

• croups
• crouping
• crouped

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When Should You Use Croup?

Use croup when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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