counterpicket

noun

coun·​ter·​pick·​et ˈkau̇n-tər-ˌpi-kət 

variants or counter-picket

plural counterpickets or counter-pickets

: a person who acts as a picket (see picket entry 1 sense 3a) to counter or oppose a demonstration or protest

Waitresses picketing … were met with counterpickets paid by the employers.

—Alice Kessler Harris

also : a demonstration or protest staged to counter or oppose another

Some anti-union workers mounted a counterpicket.

counterpicket verb, transitive + intransitive

or counter-picket

counterpicketed or counter-picketed; counterpicketing or counter-picketing

The rally, on the waterfront, was counter-picketed by supporters of the project, some of whom waved placards from a flotilla of 23 boats in the harbour itself.

—Tim O'Brien

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above