verb (used with object)
- to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
verb (used without object)
- (in retail use) to buy only the sale items and ignore the other merchandise.
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- (tr) to choose or take the best or most profitable of (a number of things), esp for one’s own benefit or gaincherry-pick the best routes
“to select the very best selfishly,” 1959 (implied in cherry-picking), American English (“Billboard”), a pejorative figurative sense,from cherry (n.) + pick (v.). Related: Cherry-picked.