cherry picker

• cherrypicker, cherry-picker

cherry picker (plural cherry pickers)

1. A piece of equipment consisting of a large basket at the end of an extensible boom, often mounted on a truck body, and used by workers to reach inaccessible places such as power lines and tall trees.
2. A person or group that picks the best for themselves; one who cherry-picks.
3. A person or group that picks only evidence which supports an argument and ignores evidence which contradicts it; one who cherry-picks.
   • 2006, Manfred Weidhorn, An Anatomy of Skepticism (→ISBN), page 218:

     Two conclusions stand out: The Bible is a cherry-picker's paradise, and human beings cannot function without double standards.

4. A person or device that harvests cherries, or that aids in the harvesting of cherries.
   • 1947, John Trecartin Ogden, Food Freezing:

     A relatively high proportion of the cost of production of RSP cherries is in the picking. Pickers are paid [...]. There is considerable interest in a mechanical cherry picker which is reported to be able to double each picker's output.

   • 1994, The World Book Encyclopedia:

     A mechanical cherry picker shakes a cherry tree to loosen the fruit. The cherries drop onto outstretched cloths, roll onto a conveyor, and are deposited in a tank of salt water. The fruit floats in the water and thus is [...]

• (equipment): boom lift, man lift, basket crane, hydraladder, bucket truck
• (person who cherry-picks, in sports): goalhanger (UK)

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