cherry picker
noun
1
: a traveling crane equipped for holding a passenger at the end of the boom
2
: one who cherry-picks
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One worker was in a cherry picker, an elevating machine, when they were stung, the city’s fire department told KPNX.
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Helena Wegner
july 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
Video shows the moment an 18-wheeler slammed into a bucket truck while a state employee worked in the vehicle's cherry picker, flipping the container and leaving him dangling upside-down above a Louisiana road.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 28 June 2025
Already, dozens of trailers are lining the airfield, and trucks were seen going into the site on Tuesday afternoon, bringing in portable restrooms, generators and construction machinery, such as bulldozers, forklifts and cherry pickers.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
The man continued shouting while clinging to the founding father’s head until police emergency services went up in a cherry picker forklift and wrestled him off the statue.
—Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 16 May 2025
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Helena Wegner
july 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
Video shows the moment an 18-wheeler slammed into a bucket truck while a state employee worked in the vehicle's cherry picker, flipping the container and leaving him dangling upside-down above a Louisiana road.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 28 June 2025
Already, dozens of trailers are lining the airfield, and trucks were seen going into the site on Tuesday afternoon, bringing in portable restrooms, generators and construction machinery, such as bulldozers, forklifts and cherry pickers.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
The man continued shouting while clinging to the founding father’s head until police emergency services went up in a cherry picker forklift and wrestled him off the statue.
—Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 16 May 2025
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“Cherry picker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cherry%20picker. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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