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cotton picker

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English

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Etymology

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The ethnic slur is in reference to black slaves who worked on cotton plantations in the US.

Noun

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cotton picker (plural cotton pickers)

  1. Someone who harvests cotton.
  2. (ethnic slur) A black person.

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