picker-up

English

Two pickers-up at a game shoot

Alternative forms

• (colloquial) picker-upper

Noun

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