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General Slang
Cherry picker
· noun · construction
A truck-mounted bucket lift for working at height.
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An aerial work platform — a hydraulic boom with a bucket on the end, usually mounted to a truck. Linemen, sign techs, and tree crews ride them up to do work overhead. Name comes from orchard rigs originally built to pick cherries without ladders.
“Pole's a forty-footer, we're not free-climbing that — get the cherry picker up here.”
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Cherry picker In A Sentence
Pole's a forty-footer, we're not free-climbing that — get the cherry picker up here.
Origin & Usage
Originally agricultural — booms designed for harvesting fruit from tall trees; adopted by utility and construction trades by the mid-20th century.
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