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cropper
noun- a man who seeks to have sex with a transsexual UK
Named after Coronation Street character Roy Cropper whose 1999 soap opera story-line had him involved with a transsexual. - — Attitude, p. 60, July 2003
- a failure; a setback AUSTRALIA, 1921
- Second cropper happened soon after the first–you should have seen me–mud from head to feet[.] — Patsy Adam-Smith, The ANZACS, 1978
▶ come a cropper
to take a heavy fall; to go wrong UK, 1874
This is the most familiar phrase based-on “cropper” (a fall, 1858); others are “get a cropper” and “fall a cropper.”- Bloke’s got to help a girl where it’s rough case she slips and comes a cropper in the dark. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1947
- [T]errific crash as Tony comes a cropper. — Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Hancock’s Half Hour, 28 June 1959
- “He’s making a big name for himself, alright.” “One of these days I’m afraid he’s going to come a cropper[.]” — Murray Bail, Holden’s Performance, p. 117, 1988
- I was just a normal schoolboy with normal schoolboy habits and a propensity for mishap, as evidenced by the day I came a cropper in tar at Mentone. — Rex Hunt, Tall Tales–and True, 1994
- But like the best-laid plans, the best-planned lays can come a cropper. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 50, 2002
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