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- noun An
aircraft that carries outcrop-dusting .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Imagine the cropduster truly flying at you in North by Northwest, or just those opening credits of Vertigo.
What classic movie do you most want to see in 3-D? | EW.com 2009
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– Asking B. Mac for screenwriting advice is like asking a cropduster pilot to fly a fighter jet.
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Imagine the cropduster truly flying at you in North by Northwest, or just those opening credits of Vertigo.
What classic movie do you most want to see in 3-D? | EW.com 2009
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Grant is on his own in "North by Northwest" (1959), dodging a killer cropduster in one of the most celebrated sequences in film history.
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Finally, after six minutes of this, the cropduster plane begins its attack on Cary Grant, sending him diving, running through the corn field to hide.
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It's all quite wonderful right up to the moment when the cropduster plane crashes into the tanker.
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No, I'm referring to arguably the most famous sequence in North by Northwest, Cary Grant's encounter with a cropduster plane out in the middle of nowhere.
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In a recent interview, Mr. Busey said that while he was a drug addict, he snorted cocaine off his dog, who had rolled around in the white stuff: “I went in like a cropduster with my nose flying first and snorted the cocaine off the dog.”
Gary Busey Snorted Cocaine Off His Dog | Best Week Ever 2008
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He could be defeated only with the use of a cropduster.
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Fields of coca are sprayed with glyphosate herbicide from cropduster-type aircraft, killing coca plants and any other crops in the area.
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