"picker-up" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pickers-up [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|pickers-up}} picker-up (plural pickers-up)
  1. A person employed on a shoot to pick up dead game.
    Sense id: en-picker-up-en-noun-MQhpyF2m
  2. (colloquial) A person who picks things up. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-picker-up-en-noun-Owz1Tq7K
  3. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in. Categories (topical): Occupations, People Synonyms: lugger, roper, runner, steerer
    Sense id: en-picker-up-en-noun-2w-MVBL5 Disambiguation of Occupations: 10 18 73 Disambiguation of People: 1 21 79 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 12 60 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 22 11 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: picker-upper [colloquial]

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for picker-up meaning in English (1.8kB)

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