- the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.
- the yield of such produce for a particular season.
- the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds.
- a supply produced.
- a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students.
- the stock or handle of a whip.
- a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.
- Also called craw. Zoology.
- a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.
- a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.
- the act of cropping.
- a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.
- a close-cropped hairstyle.
- a head of hair so cut.
- an entire tanned hide of an animal.
- an outcrop of a vein or seam.
- to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).
- to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog.
- to cut short: cropped t-shirts.
- to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.
- to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).
- to cause to bear a crop or crops.
- to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn.
- to bear or yield a crop or crops.
- to feed by cropping or grazing.
- (of women’s casual garments) shorter than is usual: a crop top that bares your midriff;crop pants that end at mid-calf.
- crop out,
- to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.
- to become evident or visible; occur: A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.
- to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up.
- the produce of cultivated plants, esp cereals, vegetables, and fruit
- the amount of such produce in any particular season
- the yield of some other farm produce
- a group of products, thoughts, people, etc, appearing at one time or in one season
- the stock of a thonged whip
- short for riding crop
- a pouchlike expanded part of the oesophagus of birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing on to the gizzard
- a similar structure in insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates
- the entire tanned hide of an animal
- a short cropped hairstyle
- a notch in or a piece cut out of the ear of an animal
- the act of cropping
- to cut (hair, grass, etc) very short
- to cut and collect (mature produce) from the land or plant on which it has been grown
- to clip part of (the ear or ears) of (an animal), esp as a means of identification
- to cause (land) to bear or (of land) to bear or yield a crop
- (of herbivorous animals) to graze on (grass or similar vegetation)
- to cut off or mask unwanted edges or areas of (a negative or print)