Obs. [from CROUPIER: cf. CROUP sb.3] trans. To second or back up (a gamester).
1728. Vanbr. & Cibber, Prov. Husb., II. i. I have a game in my hand, in which, if you’ll croup me, that is, help me to play it, you shall go five hundred to nothing.
Croup, -e, obs. pa. t. of CREEP.
