cherry-picker

NOUN

truck with raisable boom

Synonyms

WEAK

boom cable truck telephone truck utility truck

Example Sentences

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A council contractor has been verbally abused and says his cherry-picker was damaged as he tried to remove Saltire flags from lampposts in Stenhousemuir.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

That’s when Tacoma Power workers hoisted cherry-picker buckets and began slicing into pieces a 118-year-old city landmark — the Tacoma totem pole.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

The officer alternated between orders and pleads, his cherry-picker crawling more slowly than Tree Man could climb.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2016

McGregor referred to him as a "cherry-picker" — before Alvarez’s junior-middleweight title fight against obscure champion Liam Smith on Sept. 17 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2016

Along Tripoli Street, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, a municipal work crew with a cherry-picker was methodically taking down the posters of Muammar el-Qaddafi that hung from every lamppost.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2016