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UK
/kɹˈɒp/
]
[ US /ˈkɹɑp/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɑp/ ]
NOUN
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- the stock or handle of a whip
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a collection of people or things appearing together
the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas -
the output of something in a season
the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores - the yield from plants in a single growing season
VERB
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prepare for crops
Work the soil
cultivate the land -
cut short
She wanted her hair cropped short -
yield crops
This land crops well - let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
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cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
dress the plants in the garden -
feed as in a meadow or pasture
the herd was grazing
How To Use crop In A Sentence
- So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
- Here are 10 iconic looks from 90s movies: get ready for crop tops and a lot of frosted makeup.
- Try to meet a boy with a little more depth than your current crop of potential beaus.
- The one who liked the girls a bit too much. peteyboosh I agree with Pat: composting (Ray should not compost old cheese and tortillas), social cropdusting requires attention at Ediible Geography. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
- This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
- National Provisions Company, and went out preaching fiat money and a subtreasury for the farmers 'crops, trusting to God and the flower garden about his little white house, to keep the family alive -- it is odd that Jeanette's childish impression was that General Ward was a man of consequence in the world. A Certain Rich Man
- Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
- Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.
- Most organic farmers try to supply their nitrogen needs with legumes in the crop rotation or with manures and composts.
- I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
