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/krɑp aʊt/ Listen

verb

Crop v. i. To yield harvest.

To crop out.

(a)

(Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal.

(b)

To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out.

To crop up, to sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly. "Cares crop up in villas."

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Etymology of 'Crop out'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crop out" Quotes from Famous Books

... bargain as the last. It's my luck—I always knew I was ill-fated—but, Lord a-mercy, how's a man goin' to tell the state of a woman's innards from the way she looks on top? All the huggin' in the world won't make her wink an eyelash, an' then there'll crop out heart disease or dropsy befo' the year is up. When I think of the trouble I had pickin' that thar woman it makes me downright sick. It ain't much matter about the colour or the shape, I said—a freckled face an' a scrawny waist I kin stand—only let it be the quality that wears. ...

— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

... localities. They are dispersed through eight provinces of Luzon and in several other islands, generally in the interior, whither they have been driven by the invading Malays.[275] [See map page 147.] But the Negritos crop out again in the mountain interior of Formosa and Borneo, in the eastern peninsula of Celebes, and in various islands of the Malay Archipelago as far east as Ceram and Flores, amid a prevailing Malay stock. Toward the west they come to the surface ...

— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple