Meaning of picker-upperer | Babel Free

Definitions

One who, or that which, picks up (something).

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Examples

“There is a hotel with a valet which hires a clothes picker-upperer name of Jasper. While Jasper is out picking up or delivering, a call comes in from a room near where he is going.”

“After the arrival of these new programs, who knows what the kids will be inventing in next year’s competition. It’s likely to be much more elaborate than Joshua’s dirty sock picker-upper-er, that’s for sure!”

“I'm going to buy a tractor/lawn mower and design a picker-upperer, can't be that hard can it....”

“Finally, got a ride-on mower (25hp-it'll probably knock down trees, now to design a poo picker upperer).”

“>There are at least 3 good reasons for flipping the ball. but the real reason everybody does it is so you dont have to bend over to pick up your practice balls. as a youngster learning the game it was a big no no to use one of those girly ball picker upperer things.”

“sorry, that's my fault. a while ago, i spilled some red wine and had to use the goat beard as the quicker-picker upperer because it was the only thing handy.”

“My classic was a lint-picker-upperer. We had a show stand opposite one of these people.”

“> […] I was a > bit peeved that out of all the gadgets I took home, there > wasn't a pickled onion picker upperer.”

“I didn't realise the scraggly dude with the cart had such a posh title as "Mortician" / I bet he didn't get more than a ha'penny for being the towns chief body pickerupperer”

“Who would reckon a shit picker upperer would threaten me:o),”

“have you still got a satellite thingy picker upperer (i believe that's the technical name) on your roof to pull these images down from ?”

“Another chance to show off my handy-dandy keg mover/picker-upperer.”

“Dad was concerned that you might distract me from my career as a litter picker-upperer, while Mam believed you’d be the incentive I’ve needed all along.”

“He did like the picker upperers that look like Mickey's hand and he manged to snag a pen with tinkerbell on the top with it.”

“In fact I hate writing so much that if you gave me a choice right now between writing in this journal or picking up dog poo, then I would definitely be a full-time poo picker-upperer […]”

“I don’t actually know what one of these is officially called. It’s a flexible thingy with a magnet on one end, for retrieving things from inaccessible places. It ends up being referred to as the ‘magnetic picker upperer’.”

“You can do this manually on your hands and knees, or for advanced players - attach an old mop handle to the top of any regular squeegee and you've DIY'd your own super effective pet hair picker-upperer.”

“So there's a job for everybody - whether it's as a rider with a thirst, or a picker-upperer lending a hand.”

“Mitchell: As a volunteer at the Claypits, we do litter picking, which is more of a walk sometimes because we’re very enthusiastic picker-upperers.”

“This North American company has developed a robotic picker-upperer that floats along near the sea bed without actually rolling on it, searching for the right kinds of nodules with camera vision, using AI to determine which ones have signs of visible life on board, leaving those alone and carefully yoinking the rest off the surface with little claw grabbers.”

“Another cutlery-related issue has to do with share plates, each one coming with a pair of what I can only call clackers: metal tongs with a scissor handle at one end and clumsy, spoon-shaped picker-upperers at the other.”

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