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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Footage taken by passerby Chase Williams shows firefighters helping riders off the stuck ride onto a cherry picker.
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Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 29 May 2026
In that heist, thieves made off with $102 million worth of jewels and escaped via a cherry picker, with a global manhunt ensuing.
—Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Beccuau said the 37-year-old suspect's DNA was recovered from the mechanical cherry picker used in the robbery.
—ABC News, 3 Nov. 2025
There were construction vehicles everywhere: cherry pickers, earthmovers, trucks carrying spools of cable.
—Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025
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Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 29 May 2026
In that heist, thieves made off with $102 million worth of jewels and escaped via a cherry picker, with a global manhunt ensuing.
—Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Beccuau said the 37-year-old suspect's DNA was recovered from the mechanical cherry picker used in the robbery.
—ABC News, 3 Nov. 2025
There were construction vehicles everywhere: cherry pickers, earthmovers, trucks carrying spools of cable.
—Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Cherry picker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cherry%20picker. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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