English Explanatory Dictionary

cherry picker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A cantilevered tool for installing or removing a vehicle's engine block.
  3. A person or device that harvests cherries, or that aids in the harvesting of cherries.
  4. A person or group that picks the best for themselves; one who cherry-picks.
  5. A person or group that picks only evidence which supports an argument and ignores evidence which contradicts it; one who cherry-picks.
noun
  1. Synonym of Cherrybum (“a member of the 11th Hussars cavalry regiment”).

Word forms

cherry picker cherry pickers cherrypicker cherry-picker

Synonyms

boom lift basket crane hydraladder bucket truck engine crane engine hoist goalhanger Cherrybum

Related words

cherry-pick teleporter manlift
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