Meaning

(rare) One who, or that which, picks up (something)..

Example Sentences

There is a hotel with a valet which hires a clothes picker-upperer name of Jasper. While Jasper is out picking up or delivering, a call comes in from a room near where he is going.

After the arrival of these new programs, who knows what the kids will be inventing in next year’s competition. It’s likely to be much more elaborate than Joshua’s dirty sock picker-upper-er, that’s for sure!

I'm going to buy a tractor/lawn mower and design a picker-upperer, can't be that hard can it....

Finally, got a ride-on mower (25hp-it'll probably knock down trees, now to design a poo picker upperer).

>There are at least 3 good reasons for flipping the ball. but the real reason everybody does it is so you dont have to bend over to pick up your practice balls. as a youngster learning the game it was a big no no to use one of those girly ball picker upperer things.

sorry, that's my fault. a while ago, i spilled some red wine and had to use the goat beard as the quicker-picker upperer because it was the only thing handy.

My classic was a lint-picker-upperer. We had a show stand opposite one of these people.

> […] I was a > bit peeved that out of all the gadgets I took home, there > wasn't a pickled onion picker upperer.

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• picker-upperers

Synonyms for picker-upperer

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Use picker-upperer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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