Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cut off short, as the hair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective cut very short.
- adjective having an unnecessary portion at the edges cut off; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
crop .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of land or soil) used for growing crops
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Examples
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Moreover, she was their friend, and they were not about to start jumping to conclusions because her name cropped up in some FBI file.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Moreover, she was their friend, and they were not about to start jumping to conclusions because her name cropped up in some FBI file.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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His name cropped up in 1963 in connection with the so-called Profumo debacle, in which an international vice ring nearly brought down the British government.
Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009
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His name cropped up in 1963 in connection with the so-called Profumo debacle, in which an international vice ring nearly brought down the British government.
Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009
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The term cropped up in the British press in the 1980s and 1990s, applied to the mothers of the Princess of Wales and Duchess of York; both mothers had left their husband and children.
Sympathy for the Serial Divorcée—Heartbroken, not Heartless 2009
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His name cropped up in 1963 in connection with the so-called Profumo debacle, in which an international vice ring nearly brought down the British government.
Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009
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I did not hear of Clay again until the end of the eighties, when his name cropped up among those indicted for fraud in the junk-bond scandal.
Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992
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I did not hear of Clay again until the end of the eighties, when his name cropped up among those indicted for fraud in the junk-bond scandal.
Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992
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I did not hear of Clay again until the end of the eighties, when his name cropped up among those indicted for fraud in the junk-bond scandal.
Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992
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Public appearances that toasted his title cropped up.
NYT > Home Page By MIKE TIERNEY 2011
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