Meaning of neck and crop | Babel Free

Definitions

completely and with violence

dated, not-comparable

Examples

“She turned him neck and crop out of the house.”

“"She was a governess in the family of some Roman prince, and the son of the house seduced her. She thought he was going to marry her. They turned her out into the street neck and crop. She was going to have a baby, and she tried to commit suicide. Stroeve found her and married her."”

“"In Peter Harrigan's mines! 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?"”

“"Have it out with him to-night. Fair and square. Out he goes, Edmund, neck and crop. Out, by thunder."”

“In the darkness he fell on him, dragged him to the back gate, and flung him out neck-and-crop.”

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