crop duster
noun
: a person who sprays crops especially with fungicidal or insecticidal dusts from an airplane
also
: the airplane thus used
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Fear of terrorists following 9/11 led to a flurry of exemptions, such as hiding records about crop dusters to prevent al-Qaida from hijacking planes to spread anthrax.
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David Cuillier, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
In France, a crop duster—bright yellow, of course—had come a few dozen feet from the microlight.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
This turn of events, plus the crop duster, gave our first day on the trail an uneasy undertone.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
Clark said that the single-engine tanker, a small and nimble plane that looks like a crop duster, was located in steep, forested terrain on Friday morning after the search was suspended at nightfall the day before.
—CBS News, 26 July 2024
North by Northwest contains several of the most thrilling sequences in the director’s filmography, including the darkly comedic drunk driving scene, the showdown with the crop duster, and the climactic chase atop Mount Rushmore.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
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
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David Cuillier, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
In France, a crop duster—bright yellow, of course—had come a few dozen feet from the microlight.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
This turn of events, plus the crop duster, gave our first day on the trail an uneasy undertone.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
Clark said that the single-engine tanker, a small and nimble plane that looks like a crop duster, was located in steep, forested terrain on Friday morning after the search was suspended at nightfall the day before.
—CBS News, 26 July 2024
North by Northwest contains several of the most thrilling sequences in the director’s filmography, including the darkly comedic drunk driving scene, the showdown with the crop duster, and the climactic chase atop Mount Rushmore.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
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
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“Crop duster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crop%20duster. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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