neck and crop

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

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adv

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"She turned him neck and crop out of the house."
""They turned her out into the street neck and crop.""
""Don't you realise that he'll pick them up and throw them out of here, neck and crop--the whole crew, every man in the town, if necessary?""
""Out he goes, Edmund, neck and crop. Out, by thunder.""
"In the darkness he fell on him, dragged him to the back gate, and flung him out neck-and-crop."

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.

come a cropper

come a cropper

neck and heels

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What does neck and crop mean?

Bodily (and with force); completely, altogether.

Where does neck and crop come from?

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.

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