Trimmigrant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Trimmigrant is a noun meaning (US, slang) A migrant worker who comes into an area to find a job harvesting marijuana.
Meaning
(US, slang) A migrant worker who comes into an area to find a job harvesting marijuana.
Example Sentences
Based on previous experience, Nevada City was braced for a massive influx of so-called “trimmigrants” when the marijuana harvest season started.
Whether you support it or not, marijuana cultivation has become increasingly rooted in our local community and economy, bring boutique fertilizer stores, cheap weed and a fall migration of slightly disheveled "trimmigrants" to our area.
If there is full legalization in California, the poor Bohemians making $200-400 day trimming buds in Humbolt County will be earning $10 an hour, if that. I have a trimmigrant relative who makes that kind of money working basically half-days.
Word Forms
- trimmigrants
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trapper, trap, pusherman, rumrunner, drifter, rum-runner.
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