croppy noun. ['krɒpi] L18.
[from CROP noun + -Y¹.]
Hist. A person who has his or her hair cut short; spec. (a) (also croppy-boy) one of the Irish rebels of 1798, who showed their sympathy with the French Revolution in this way; (b) Austral. an escaped convict.

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