<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the 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.</li><li>a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.</li><li>a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.</li><li>the act of cropping.</li><li>a close-cropped hairstyle.</li><li>an entire tanned hide of an animal.</li><li>an outcrop of a vein or seam.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</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 graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>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>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>