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

Archive Use the Archive Date picker to choose a date. —Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025

Beatriz Adriana Aguilera Fonseca, a former apple picker, works at a Mexican food market in Sodus, N.Y., about 40 minutes east of Rochester, where shoppers began to request deliveries in recent months. —Ana Ley, New York Times, 30 May 2025

Ramsay’s filmmaking is undeniably powerful, engulfing us in the sick stew of Grace’s mind while flooding the soundtrack with music from Lou Reed, David Bowie, and the Cocteau Twins (Ramsay has always been an apt picker of songs that tell the psychic story of her films’ protagonists). —Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2025

Get a lifetime subscription to this stock picker for only $55.19 with code SAVE20. —New Atlas, 14 May 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