Meaning of cherry picker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of Cherrybum (“a member of the 11th Hussars cavalry regiment”).
   historical, slang
2. A piece of equipment consisting of a large basket at the end of an extensible boom, often mounted on a truck body, and used by workers to reach inaccessible places such as power lines and tall trees.
3. A cantilevered tool for installing or removing a vehicle's engine block.
4. A person or device that harvests cherries, or that aids in the harvesting of cherries.
5. A person or group that picks the best for themselves; one who cherry-picks.
   figuratively
6. A person or group that picks only evidence which supports an argument and ignores evidence which contradicts it; one who cherry-picks.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: man lift⟳”

“Earlier police used a cherry picker to clear protesters perched on a wooden structure⟳ built to block⟳ the road at Oxford Circus.”

“Between filling the sandwiches, Nicole Moy and Shazza McCormack collect⟳ donations for the flags and pass⟳ on quietly offered suggestions by local people, anxious about possible illegality, as to where the flaggers should visit⟳ next with their ladders and cherrypickers.”

“A relatively high proportion of the cost⟳ of production of RSP cherries is in the picking. Pickers are paid […]. There is considerable interest⟳ in a mechanical cherry picker which is reported to be able to double⟳ each picker's output.”

“A mechanical cherry picker shakes a cherry tree to loosen the fruit. The cherries drop onto outstretched cloths, roll onto a conveyor, and are deposited in a tank of salt water. The fruit floats in the water and thus is […]”

“Two conclusions stand⟳ out: The Bible is a cherry-picker's paradise, and human beings cannot function without double⟳ standards.”

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