neck and crop
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Uncertain, but crop may refer to the backside of a horse, so that a horse that fell neck and crop had both its neck and backside hit the ground.
[edit] Adverb
- (obsolete) completely and with violence
- She turned him neck and crop out of the house.
[edit] Translations
completely and with violence
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- "Come a cropper" in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds, 2004.