English Explanatory Dictionary

cotton picker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who harvests cotton.
  2. A black person.

Word forms

cotton picker cotton pickers cotton-picker

Etymology

The ethnic slur is in reference to black slaves who worked on cotton plantations in the US.

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