hop picker

English

Noun

hop picker (plural hop pickers)

1. A person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season.
   • 1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Kent & East Sussex Railway Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 182:

     Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion.

   • 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:

     Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.

Translations

a person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season

• Irish: buanaí leannlus m

References

• “hop picker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• poker chip