U.S. Also crappè, croppie. A species of sunfish, Pomoxys annularis, found in the Mississippi and its tributaries.
1861. G. F. Berkeley, Sportsm. W. Prairies, iii. 41. A fish they call the ‘crappeè.’ Ibid., xxii. 363. The crappè, so pronounced, which was very like our freshwater bream.
1889. Farmer, Dict. Amer., Croppie.
