See greenie on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2000, Ken Tate, Janice Tate, Good Old Days Remembers Working on the Farm, page 115:",
"text": "The only way I could keep up with the veteran pickers was to pick almost every strawberry in my row — ripe, unripe, overripe or damaged. ... Then he would pay me 2 cents a quart for the good ones and charge me a penny for the \"greenies.\"",
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"ref": "2008, Brian D. Krueger, The College Grad Job Hunter, page 207:",
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"ref": "2007, R. Quentin Grafton, Harry W. Nelson, Bruce Turris, “How to Resolve the Class II Common Property Problem? The Case of British Columbia's Multi-Species Groundfish Trawl Fishery”, in Trond Bjørndal, Daniel V. Gordon, Ragnar Arnason, U. Rashid Sumaila, editors, Advances in Fisheries Economics: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Gordon R. Munro, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 61:",
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