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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The company’s decision was tied up in tax breaks for the airline, named for its crop duster origins in the Mississippi Delta region.
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Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
The company's decision was tied up in tax breaks for the airline, named for its crop duster origins in the Mississippi Delta region.
—CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
And some of that is diesel tractors, crop dusters and other fossil fuel farm equipment.
—Miami Herald, 10 July 2025
To her, the crop dusters were magical, dipping down from the sky to spray the vegetables poking their leafy heads from the ground.
—Kate Raphael, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2025
Yet Roberta Sandoz, twenty-four, had worked for rock-bottom pay as a crop duster.
—Literary Hub, 8 May 2025
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.
—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
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Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
The company's decision was tied up in tax breaks for the airline, named for its crop duster origins in the Mississippi Delta region.
—CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
And some of that is diesel tractors, crop dusters and other fossil fuel farm equipment.
—Miami Herald, 10 July 2025
To her, the crop dusters were magical, dipping down from the sky to spray the vegetables poking their leafy heads from the ground.
—Kate Raphael, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2025
Yet Roberta Sandoz, twenty-four, had worked for rock-bottom pay as a crop duster.
—Literary Hub, 8 May 2025
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.
—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
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“Crop duster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crop%20duster. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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