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cherry picker
noun- a boy or youth in a sexual relationship with an older man UK, 1961
Royal Navy use. - a person who targets virgins for seduction US, 1960
They call me Rap the dicker the ass kicker / The cherry picker the city slicker the titty licker. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 28, 1969 - the penis UK
A play on CHERRY - — Richard Herring, Talking Cock, p. 30, 2003
- one pound (£1) UK
Rhyming slang for NICKER - — David Hillman, 1974
- a machine, mounted on a rail car or caterpillar tractor, for picking up logs dropped from cars or on roadsides CANADA
- This fabulous machine for loading the enormous logs from the British Columbia forests onto trailers is nicknamed the “cherry-picker.” — Canada 1962, p. 158, 1962
- a crane US
- — Ira Konigsberg, The Complete Film Dictionary, p. 47, 1987
- a large bucket on a boom attached to a truck used to raise a worker to work in an elevated position on power lines, telephone lines, etc. US
- The cherry picker, a crane with a basket that will lift Edna [Everage] fifty feet above the stalls to sing her finale straight into the eyes of her balcony fans[.] — John Lahr, Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation, p. 6, 1991
- an engine hoist US
- — Lewis Poteet, Car & Motorcyle Slang, p. 48, 1992
- a railway pointsman US
Named because of the red railway signal lights. - — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 260, 1946
- a prominent, hooked nose US, 1968
- — Frederic G. Cassidy, Dictionary of American Regional English, p. 605, 1985
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