neck and crop en · ADV
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.
Meanings
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(dated, not-comparable) Bodily (and with force); completely, altogether.
She turned him neck and crop out of the house.
"Out he goes, Edmund, neck and crop. Out, by thunder."
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 76:"They turned her out into the street neck and crop."
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 41”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:In the darkness he fell on him, dragged him to the back gate, and flung him out neck-and-crop.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 24:"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?"
1917, Upton Sinclair, King Coal, chapter 12:
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Translations (1)
nl met kop en kont (completely and with violence)