cherry picker
noun
1
: a traveling crane equipped for holding a passenger at the end of the boom
2
: one who cherry-picks
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Four guys, using a cherry picker truck to scale the side of the museum, break through a second-floor window, scoop up to $100 million worth of French crown jewelry and make off with the loot on motor scooters in under 10 minutes.
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Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Sharon, 73, and Jack, 39, rode a cherry picker to see the mural from above.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 13 Oct. 2025
Trocheck’s father, Vincent Sr., began working at 13 years old as a cherry picker fixing phone lines and continued to grind throughout his life, bouncing from car sales to real estate to roofing and whatever else put food on his family’s table.
—Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
An electrical worker was badly injured after being electrocuted while working on power lines from a cherry picker in Queens on Friday.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2025
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Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Sharon, 73, and Jack, 39, rode a cherry picker to see the mural from above.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 13 Oct. 2025
Trocheck’s father, Vincent Sr., began working at 13 years old as a cherry picker fixing phone lines and continued to grind throughout his life, bouncing from car sales to real estate to roofing and whatever else put food on his family’s table.
—Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
An electrical worker was badly injured after being electrocuted while working on power lines from a cherry picker in Queens on Friday.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Cherry picker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cherry%20picker. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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