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hop picker

hop picker noun: a person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season.

Noun

hop picker (plural hop pickers)

  1. A person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season.
    • Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion.1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Kent & East Sussex Railway Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 182
    • Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170

Forms of hop picker

pluralhop pickers
alternative formhop-picker

Questions about hop picker

What does hop picker mean?
Hop picker means a person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season.
What part of speech is hop picker?
Hop picker is a noun.
What is the plural of hop picker?
The plural of hop picker is hop pickers.

Words near hop picker in the dictionary

  1. hop merchants
  2. hop n pop
  3. hop off
  4. hop on
  5. hop on down to
  6. hop picker
  7. hop pickers
  8. hop pocket
  9. hop pockets
  10. hop pole
  11. hop poles

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