picker-upper
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of picker-upper
1935–40; pick up + -er 1, joined pleonastically to both v. and particle
Example Sentences
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“My deeply personal hell,” is how parent and picker-upper Misty Heggeness put it in 2022.
From Slate • Sep. 3, 2024
Dalbec isn’t the only trash picker-upper in the neighborhood.
From Washington Times • May 23, 2020
Like the paper towels in those old Bounty commercials, Williams was a quicker picker-upper.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2017
It’s a nostalgic picker-upper about the power of banding together in song and solidarity.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2017
Nicky Kinnaird, of Space NK, turned me on to Bakel and to By Terry’s Baume De Rose, a true quicker picker-upper.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2010
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