Definitions

cherry-picker

NOUN

truck with raisable boom

Synonyms

WEAK

boom cable truck telephone truck utility truck

Example Sentences

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OK, this is how much a cherry picker in Hungary costs, and therefore I’m gonna take out two shots and only build half the roof.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

A bucket truck, also known as a cherry picker, is a vehicle equipped with a hydraulic lift system and an extendable arm that ends in a bucket where a person can stand.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

A temporary causeway opened less than two weeks after the storm, allowing a convoy of electrical companies’ cherry picker trucks to reach the island.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023

Above him, colleagues in a cherry picker are hard at work, hauling a new high voltage line up to a pylon.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2023

The rain was falling so hard that he could barely see the cherry picker in the middle of the span.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George