picker-up

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English

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Two pickers-up at a game shoot

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Noun

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picker-up (plural pickers-up)

  1. A person employed on a shoot to pick up dead game.
  2. (colloquial) A person who picks things up.
  3. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
    Synonyms: lugger, roper, runner, steerer