Meaning of Picking | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gathering to pick fruit.
2. Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
3. Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
4. Something picked or pulled out.
5. The act of making a choice; selection.
6. The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
7. The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
8. Dabbing in stoneworking.

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Examples

“We went to a strawberry picking last June.”

“Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.”

“easy pickings, rich pickings”

“He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.”

“The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.”

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