A surname.

plural of Cropp

(originally) To fall headlong from a horse. / (Britain, idiomatic) To suffer some accident or misfortune; to fail.

present participle of crop

The act by which something is cut short or truncated. / The growing of crops. / (mining) An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains.

simple past tense and past participle of crop

Cut very short.

(agriculture) The practice of sequentially raising and harvesting a second (or third, or sometimes more) crop (usually vegetables) in the same field in a single growing season, especially in warmer climates such as California's Imperial Valley or the Rio Grande valley of Texas and Mexico.

(normally confined to the expression come a cropper) A fall, a tumble; a decided failure.

A breed of domestic pigeon with large crop.