[perh. from phrase neck and crop.] colloq. A heavy fall; usually in phr. come (fall, get) a cropper; often fig.
1858. R. S. Surtees, Ask Mamma, liii. 244. [He] rode at an impracticable fence, and got a cropper for his pains.
1877. H. A. Leveson, Sport Many Lands, 464. My horse put his foot in a hole and came down a cropper.
