Neck-and-crop Definition
adverb
(obsolete) Completely and with violence.
She turned him neck and crop out of the house.
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Origin of Neck-and-crop
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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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