hop picker

English

Noun

hop picker (plural hop pickers)

A person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season.
- 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.

References

“hop picker” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

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