trimmigrant

English

Etymology

Blend of trim +‎ immigrant.

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Noun

trimmigrant (plural trimmigrants)

1. (US, slang) A migrant worker who comes into an area to find a job harvesting marijuana.
   • 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 November 8, Dave Brooksher, “Trimmigrants moving on faster than expected”, in The Union, California:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:trimmigrant.