<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.</li><li>the yield of such produce for a particular season.</li><li>the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds.</li><li>a supply produced.</li><li>a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students.</li><li>the stock or handle of a whip. Also called riding crop.</li><li>a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash. Also called craw.</li><li>Zoology: a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.</li><li>a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.</li><li>the act of cropping.</li><li>a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.</li><li>a close-cropped hairstyle.</li><li>a head of hair so cut.</li><li>an entire tanned hide of an animal.</li><li>Mining: an outcrop of a vein or seam.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).</li><li>to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog.</li><li>to cut short: cropped t-shirts.</li><li>to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.</li><li>Photography: to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).</li><li>to cause to bear a crop or crops.</li><li>to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to bear or yield a crop or crops.</li><li>to feed by cropping or grazing.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>(of women’s casual garments) shorter than is usual: a crop top that bares your midriff; crop pants that end at mid-calf.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase:</strong></p><ul><li>to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up.</li><li>Geology, Mining: to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.</li><li>to become evident or visible; occur: A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.</li></ul>