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- noun Plural form of
plucker .
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Examples
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These are our grass cutters, dishwashers, house cleaners and chicken pluckers.
Minimum Wage and CEO Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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You need to chat with the Muslims in Galle and the tea pluckers in Nuwara Eliya.
Global Voices in English » Sri Lanka: Abuse, Disbelief And Bitterness Persist 2009
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The wish for better luck with the ladies, to put it delicately, is the main reason – along with money – why such a disproportionately high number of sweaty-palmed crooners, twirlers and pluckers, are mysteriously attracted to a career in music.
Good luck to Caroline Flack. She'll need it | Barbara Ellen 2011
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Haircuts are free, like the air we breathe, so some people show up every day for an expensive new styling, the government pays out more and more, barbers revel in their huge new incomes, and the profession starts to grow ravenously, bald men start to come in droves for free hair implantations, a school of fancy, specialized eyebrow pluckers develops-it's all free, the government pays.
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Haircuts are free, like the air we breathe, so some people show up every day for an expensive new styling, the government pays out more and more, barbers revel in their huge new incomes, and the profession starts to grow ravenously, bald men start to come in droves for free hair implantations, a school of fancy, specialized eyebrow pluckers develops-it's all free, the government pays.
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During this time, companies are trying whatever they can to cut costs, including implementing child labor, mechanizing the plucking industry -- according to one of the workers: "the machines pluck everything including snakes and spiders, while the tea pluckers pluck tea" - and hiring casuals or "temporary" workers at lower wages and reduced benefits.
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Music floated through the air—gospel, blues, country and popular tunes—as singers and guitar pluckers found one another.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
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During this time, companies are trying whatever they can to cut costs, including implementing child labor, mechanizing the plucking industry -- according to one of the workers: "the machines pluck everything including snakes and spiders, while the tea pluckers pluck tea" -- and hiring casuals or "temporary" workers at lower wages and reduced benefits.
Bernard Pollack: In Kenya, Workers in the Tea and Flower Industries Find Strength in Solidarity 2009
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And yet on you [and the bumpersticker-eyebrow pluckers] rave.
Double Standards and Disingenuosity On Bellowing Townhall Disruptors 2009
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Maybe its journey to me involved handlers, packagers, maybe pluckers, and truck drivers.
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