subs. (general).—The hair cut close to the skull; a mode once common to all prisoners, but now to convicts only. Also PRISON-CROP. [An abbreviation of COUNTY-PRISON CROP.] Used likewise adjectively.
1867. GREENWOOD, Unsentimental Journeys, xxv., 199. A slangy, low-browed, bull-necked, county-cropped … crew.
