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bug picker
 n.— «“Bug pickers,” Lendall Alexander, 47, a third-generation fisherman from Harpswell, Me., said of the lobstermen. “They’ve got all that lobster to themselves.”» —“Battle in Maine Pits Lobstermen Against Fishermen” by Ariel Sabar in Portland, Maine New York Times Feb. 28, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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