Home › Words › C › cruppercrupper/ˈkɹʌpə/crupper means A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.crupper is pronounced /ˈkɹʌpə/.EtymologyFrom Middle English croper, crouper, from Anglo-Norman cruper, cropere, from Old French cropiere, crupiere, from the same Germanic root as croup. Doublet of croupiere.nounA strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.e.g.“Our knight did bear no less a pack / Of his own buttocks on his back: / Which now had almost got the upper- / Hand of his head, for want of crupper.” — 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; repubThe buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.A piece of armour covering the hindquarters/buttocks of a horse.verbTo fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.e.g.“to crupper a horse”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.croupiere 71% match — Synonym of crupper (“armor for a horse's buttocks”). vs crupper →breaststrap 68% match — A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle from slipping backwards. vs crupper →curple 64% match — The hindquarters or the rump of a horse vs crupper →croup 63% match — The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped. vs crupper →breastgirth 62% match — A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle to slip backwards. vs crupper →croupade 59% match — A leap in which the horse pulls its hind legs up towards the belly. vs crupper →saddleskirt 58% match — The portion of a saddle that covers the flank of a horse. vs crupper →checkrein 57% match — A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks. vs crupper →