croppies

Now the true believers or "croppies" point out the fact that there were some 350 crop circles that appeared long before these two gentlemen took credit for creating this particular craft in the fields in and around Wilshire, England.

CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2002 2002

In imitation of the French republicans, the rebel party cut their hair short, and it was a pastime with the soldiers to torture "croppies" by fixing a covering lined with hot pitch, a "pitch-cap," on their heads, which could not be removed without tearing the scalp.

The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886

Soldiers and yeomanry marched over the country torturing and scourging the "croppies," as the Irish peasantry were termed from their short-cut hair; robbing, ravishing, and murdering at their will.

History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) Modern England, 1760-1815 John Richard Green 1860

The "croppies", certainly no odder in their own way than we niche OS supporters, looked and sounded surprisingly normal; and their voices, to a Pompey born and bred exile listening to the Southern "R" s and "ows" all around was like coming home.

Drobe Launchpad News 2009

The "croppies", certainly no odder in their own way than we niche OS supporters, looked and sounded surprisingly normal; and their voices, to a Pompey born and bred exile listening to the Southern "R" s and "ows" all around was like coming home.

Drobe Launchpad News 2009

The "croppies", certainly no odder in their own way than we niche OS supporters, looked and sounded surprisingly normal; and their voices, to a Pompey born and bred exile listening to the Southern "R" s and "ows" all around was like coming home.

Drobe Launchpad News 2009

The "croppies", certainly no odder in their own way than we niche OS supporters, looked and sounded surprisingly normal; and their voices, to a Pompey born and bred exile listening to the Southern "R" s and "ows" all around was like coming home.

Drobe Launchpad News 2009

The "croppies", certainly no odder in their own way than we niche OS supporters, looked and sounded surprisingly normal; and their voices, to a Pompey born and bred exile listening to the Southern "R" s and "ows" all around was like coming home.

Drobe Launchpad News 2009

The "croppies", certainly no odder in their own way than we niche OS supporters, looked and sounded surprisingly normal; and their voices, to a Pompey born and bred exile listening to the Southern "R" s and "ows" all around was like coming home.

Drobe Launchpad News 2009

The "croppies", certainly no odder in their own way than we niche OS supporters, looked and sounded surprisingly normal; and their voices, to a Pompey born and bred exile listening to the Southern "R" s and "ows" all around was like coming home.

Drobe Launchpad News 2009