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pickers-up

pickers-up is the plural of picker-up.

Meaning of picker-up

Noun

picker-up (plural pickers-up)

  1. A person employed on a shoot to pick up dead game.
  2. (colloquial) A person who picks things up.
  3. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
    Synonyms:
    lugger, roper, runner, steerer

Questions about pickers-up

What is pickers-up the plural of?
Pickers-up is the plural of picker-up.

Words near pickers-up in the dictionary

  1. Pickerings
  2. Pickerington
  3. pickeroon
  4. pickeroons
  5. pickers
  6. pickers-up
  7. Pickersgill
  8. pickery
  9. pickest
  10. picket
  11. picket boat

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