Citations:trimmigrant
English citations of trimmigrant
Noun: "(US, slang) a migrant worker who comes into an area to find a job harvesting marijuana" edit
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- 2013, Jacob Shockey, "Poisoned marijuana grows are silencing our forests", Applegater (Applegate Valley, Oregon), Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 2013, page 20:
- Whether you support it or not, marijuana cultivation has become increasingly rooted in our local community and economy, bring boutique fertilizer stores, cheap weed and a fall migration of slightly disheveled "trimmigrants" to our area.
- 2014, Dave Brooksher, "Trimmigrants moving on faster than expected", The Union (California), 8 November 2014:
- Based on previous experience, Nevada City was braced for a massive influx of so-called “trimmigrants” when the marijuana harvest season started.
- 2014 December 31, jbeattie, “Re: Stuck seatpost - a new idea?”, in rec.bicycles.tech[1] (Usenet):
- If there is full legalization in California, the poor Bohemians making $200-400 day trimming buds in Humbolt County will be earning $10 an hour, if that. I have a trimmigrant relative who makes that kind of money working basically half-days.
- 2015, Linda Stansberry, "Women in Weed", The North Coast Journal, 8 January 2015:
- We say trim bitches, history will say women. We say trimmigrants, history will say migrant workers. We say nothing, and history will say we picked the wrong side.