Picking

Verb
picking



Noun

 * 1) A gathering to pick fruit.
 * We went to a strawberry picking last June.
 * 1) pluralized Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
 * 2) * 1899, F. Marion Crawford, Via Crucis, ch. 9:
 * Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.
 * 1) pluralized Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
 * 2) * 1919, Anthony Hope, The Secret of the Tower, ch. 11:
 * He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.

Synonyms

 * leftovers

Derived terms

 * easy pickings


 * in the picking


 * nit-picking
 * slim pickings

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