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stoop
adjective
used of work, usually agricultural, requiring the worker to bend at the waist to work near the ground US- I told him how we’d drifted over into Arkansas, picking cotton, and then down into the Rio Grande Valley for the fruit, and then over into the Imperial for the stoop crops. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 25, 1953
- [W]ho now pay other, less-smart hillbillies to supervise the work of Mexican braceros, whose natural fitness for stoop labor has been explained by the ubiquitous Senator Murphy[.] — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 14, 1966
- In Georgia, when he got the six-to-eight for intent to rob and kidnap, he did three and a half at Reidsville, most of it stoop labor, all day in the pea fields with them. — Elmore Leonard, Killshot, p. 20, 1989
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