picker

noun

pick·​er ˈpi-kər 

: one that picks: such as

a

: a worker who picks something (such as crops)

b

: a tool, implement, or machine used in picking something

c

: a musician who picks a stringed instrument (such as a banjo)

Synonyms

• chooser
• namer
• selector

Examples of picker in a Sentence

a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Recent Examples on the Web

This optimization logic is designed to reduce pickers' travel times while ensuring the orders will be packed and ready to ship on schedule. —Steve Banker, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025

Signs of froth have been emerging, however, and stock pickers are being forced to navigate a market that has a wide gap between expensive stocks and companies trading at reasonable valuations. —Pia Singh, CNBC, 19 Feb. 2025

McDonald, who is biracial, said her grandfather’s family were itinerant citrus pickers working camp to camp before her grandfather became a mechanic at Norton Air Force Base. —Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2025

For one, new technologies, like tractors and robotic fruit and vegetable pickers, dramatically increased farmer productivity in making food. —Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 4 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing picker

• cherry picker

Rhymes for picker

• bicker
• dicker
• flicker
• kicker
• liquor
• quicker
• ricker
• sicker
• slicker
• snicker
• sticker
• thicker