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cherry picker
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cherry picker
n.
1. A maneuverable vertical boom with an open bucket or cage at the end from which a worker can perform aerial work such as pruning trees or repairing electrical lines.
2. A vehicle equipped with such a boom.

cherry picker
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground


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Workers Juan Rubio and Javier Lopez dangled 40 feet up in the air in cherry pickers.
The raid involved 130 squad cars, a state patrol helicopter, three city buses, cherry pickers, backhoes, several fire trucks, five twenty-foot Ryder trucks filled with police in riot gear, and eight portable toilets.
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