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stoop labor

noun

  1. the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, especially as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stoop labor1

First recorded in 1945–50
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Idioms and Phrases

Back-bending manual work, especially farm work. For example, They had us picking peas all day, and that's too much stoop labor . [First half of 1900s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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