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1 N‑COUNT Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food. □  Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand. □  The main crop is wheat and this is grown even on the very steep slopes.

2 → see also cash crop

3 N‑COUNT The plants or fruits that are collected at harvest time are referred to as a crop . □ [+ of ] Each year it produces a fine crop of fruit. □  This year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year.

4 N‑SING You can refer to a group of people or things that have appeared together as a crop of people or things. [INFORMAL ] □ [+ of ] The present crop of books and documentaries about Marilyn Monroe exploit the thirtieth anniversary of her death.

5 VERB When a plant crops , it produces fruits or parts which people want. □ [V ] Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.

6 VERB To crop someone's hair means to cut it short. □ [V n] She cropped her hair and dyed it blonde. ●  cropped ADJ □  She had cropped grey hair.

7 N‑COUNT [usu sing] A crop is a short hairstyle. □  She had her long hair cut into a boyish crop.

8 VERB If you crop a photograph, you cut part of it off, in order to get rid of part of the picture or to be able to frame it. □ [V n] I decided to crop the picture just above the water line. □ [be V -ed + from ] Her husband was cropped from the photograph. [Also V n from n]

9the cream of the crop → see cream

▸  crop up PHRASAL VERB If something crops up , it appears or happens, usually unexpectedly. □ [V P ] His name has cropped up at every selection meeting this season. COLLOCATIONS crop NOUN

1

noun + crop : cereal, potato, root, wheat; cash

verb + crop : harvest, produce; plant, sow; damage, destroy

3

adjective + crop : bumper, fine; agricultural, staple

4

adjective + crop : current, present

cropped /krɒ pt/

1 ADJ [usu ADJ n] Cropped items of clothing are shorter than normal. □  Women athletes wear cropped tops and tight shorts.

2 → see also crop

crop|per /krɒ pə ^r / PHRASE If you say that someone has come a cropper , you mean that they have had an unexpected and embarrassing failure. [INFORMAL ] □  …internet businesses that came a cropper.

cro p top (crop tops ) N‑COUNT A crop top is a very short, usually tight, top worn by a girl or a woman.

cro|quet /kroʊ ke I , [AM ] kroʊke I / N‑UNCOUNT Croquet is a game played on grass in which the players use long wooden sticks called mallets to hit balls through metal arches.

cro|quette /kroʊke t/ (croquettes ) N‑COUNT Croquettes are small amounts of mashed potato or meat rolled in breadcrumbs and fried.

cross

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➋ ADJECTIVE USE

➊ cross ◆◆◇ /krɒ s, [AM ] krɔː s/ (crosses , crossing , crossed )

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1 VERB If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place. □ [V n] She was partly to blame for failing to look as she crossed the road. □ [V n] They have crossed the border into Greece and asked for political asylum. □ [V + to ] Egan crossed to the drinks cabinet and poured a Scotch. [Also V adv/prep, V + into ]

2 VERB A road, railway, or bridge that crosses an area of land or water passes over it. □ [V n] The Defford to Eckington road crosses the river half a mile outside Eckington.