crop duster

noun

: a person who sprays crops especially with fungicidal or insecticidal dusts from an airplane

also : the airplane thus used

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

In one hallucinatory work, Grant is honored with his likeness superimposed over the North by Northwest image of him fleeing not a crop duster but a sea of menstrual blood and baby legs. —Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023

Sirangelo, who began his aeronautical journey as a crop duster, spent a year combing for answers. —David Kushner, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2011

My father was a crop duster in the Texas Panhandle, a land where memories of the Dust Bowl remained painfully fresh even as the farmers remained stubbornly persistent. —Carrie Mckean, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2022

That plane, apparently a crop duster, was registered to J&J Air Service LLC of Weiner. —Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 1 June 2022

That plane, a crop duster, was registered to Hackberry Flying Service of Caraway. —Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 1 June 2022

Since the 1920s, farmers have grown rice in the Sacramento Valley, where old hands fly crop duster planes and rice emblems mark the county buildings. —Ari Plachta, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2021

Sky Warden’s Air Tractor origins as a crop duster, rather than as a commercial or business transport or intermediate training aircraft, yield durability, simplicity and robustness without the need for reverse engineering Savoie says. —Eric Tegler, Forbes, 25 May 2021

Designed as a crop duster by a Polish state aircraft bureau, the M-15 was considerably worse than the plane it was meant to replace, the 1950s-era An-2 Colt. —Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

crop duster

noun

: a person who sprays crops from an airplane especially with preparations to control insects or fungi

also : the airplane used for such spraying