cotton picker

English

Alternative forms

  • cotton-picker

Etymology

The ethnic slur is in reference to black slaves who worked on cotton plantations in the US.

Noun

cotton picker (plural cotton pickers)

  1. Someone who harvests cotton.
  2. (ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.

Translations

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