Catchword: picker

Filed under: English

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: For many of Ms. Scavo’s regulars—the eBay resellers, the pickers (who sell their finds to other dealers or designers and decorators) and the obsessive collectors—the sales are indeed fun, but also cutthroat. As they do throughout the region, dealers who come to her events have been known to hire sleepers, who arrive as early as two nights before to reserve the first spots in line.

Article or document title:
“No Such Thing as Junk” (URL)

Author:
Susan Dominus

Article, document, publication, web site:
New York Times

Date of publication:
Mar. 5, 2007

This catchword has yet to be researched.