Nutpick
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nutpick is a noun meaning (US) A sharp tool used for digging the edible portion out of a nut.
Meaning
(US) A sharp tool used for digging the edible portion out of a nut.
More Meanings
- (Internet) To cherry-pick poor representatives of a viewpoint (i.e., from Internet postings) in order to disparage it.
Example Sentences
Nutpicking has gotten easy over the last few years–just check out the Twitter feeds of Teanderthal Members of Congress.
If there’s a right-wing analog to the Media Matters machine, it often comes in the ongoing effort to “nutpick” radical professors, highlight their most ridiculous (and often years-old) comments, and try to drive them out of their jobs.
The blog-era term "nutpicking", which refers to cherry-picking the worst or nuttiest comments to disparage a larger group ("liberals", "conservatives", "feminists") by falsely implying the views are widely-held within the group, needs to be revived. It's very common on Twitter.
Word Forms
- nutpicks
- nut pick
- nutpicking
- nutpicked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nutsetter, pick, nutcracker, pignut, picker-upper, nuthook.
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