cherry picker

noun

1

: a traveling crane equipped for holding a passenger at the end of the boom

2

: one who cherry-picks

Examples of cherry picker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In October last year, a group of thieves used a basket lift (or cherry picker) to break into the museum and steal French crown jewelry from the Apollo Gallery before escaping on scooters. — Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Mike Brignano is planning to rent a crane or a cherry picker to help his neighbor remove tree limbs over his house to prevent them from falling. — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026

Two cherry pickers, with seven workers dressed in full blue protective gear, including ventilation masks, were wielding the kind of vacuum machines designed for asbestos management, sucking the nests from branches roughly 20 meters (65 feet) off the ground. — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 23 June 2026

Photographers roamed the campus with equipment in tow as cherry pickers and barricades appeared along the complex. — Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for cherry picker

• bicker
• dicker
• flicker
• kicker
• liquor
• quicker
• ricker
• sicker
• slicker
• snicker
• sticker
• thicker