Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: crop
IPA transcription: [kɹ'ɑp]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: crop, harvest
    Meaning: the yield from plants in a single growing season
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: crop
    Meaning: cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
Usage examples
  • They crop out like that."
  • Coffee is also a staple crop.
  • "You are gathering your crop, sir?" said Monte Cristo, smiling.
  • Mrs Boffin has carried the day, and we're going in neck and crop for Fashion.'
  • And this last spring they were white, and such a crop of plums I never remember at Green Gables."
  • The last crop I raised cost me eleven cents a pound and sold for three under the hammer at sheriff's sale.
  • They sold this breakfast food to thousands of farmers, to give them health and strength to harvest another crop of oats.
  • During his absence, Dorothy was to be at the office each day until lunch time to attend to any matters that might crop up.
  • Jason flung the teeth between the open sods, often turning his head in fear that the deadly crop of the Earth-born Men were rising behind him.
  • A whole crop of new appeals against insurrection had blossomed out on the walls during the night--to the peasants, to the soldiers at the front, to the workmen of Petrograd.