remaining on the offensive end of the court in basketball and waiting for a long pass to score easily. This techique leaves your team at a handicap.
by Uncle Bo Jangles April 12, 2006
Get the cherrypicking mug.me and sylvia were going at it in the backdoor, and then her rimp popped out so I did a little cherrypicking.
by jlb December 20, 2004
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(also known as: suppressed evidence, fallacy of incomplete evidence, argument by selective observation, argument by half-truth, card stacking, fallacy of exclusion, ignoring the counter evidence, one-sided assessment, slanting, one-sidedness)
Description: When only select evidence is presented in order to persuade the audience to accept a position, and evidence that would go against the position is withheld. The stronger the withheld evidence, the more fallacious the argument.
Description: When only select evidence is presented in order to persuade the audience to accept a position, and evidence that would go against the position is withheld. The stronger the withheld evidence, the more fallacious the argument.
My political candidate gives 10% of his income to the needy, goes to church every Sunday, and volunteers one day a week at a homeless shelter. Therefore, he is honest and morally straight.
Explanation: What information was left out of the example is that this same candidate gives 10% of his income to needy prostitutes in exchange for services, goes to the bar every Sunday after church (and sometimes before), and only works at the homeless shelter to get clients for his drug dealing business.
This is a prime example of cherry picking.
Explanation: What information was left out of the example is that this same candidate gives 10% of his income to needy prostitutes in exchange for services, goes to the bar every Sunday after church (and sometimes before), and only works at the homeless shelter to get clients for his drug dealing business.
This is a prime example of cherry picking.
by Information Daily March 10, 2014
Get the Cherry Picking mug.1. Hang around the goal waiting for a pass. Someone who doesn't play defense.
2 Choosing to do the easiest task out of a group of tasks when given the chance.
2 Choosing to do the easiest task out of a group of tasks when given the chance.
1. That lazy bastard is cherry picking again, he never comes back to play defense.
2. That cherry picker took the easiest way out again.
2. That cherry picker took the easiest way out again.
by longhorn January 12, 2005
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Get the ohio cherry picking mug.The act of lighting a bowl of weed with a lit cigarette. The idea is to break a little bit of the cigarette cherry into the weed, creating a cherried bowl that will last a while. It also sucks some weed into your cigarette so that you get little hits out of your cigarette hits.
Dude 1: Are you seriously lighting a bowl with your cigarette, dude?
Dude 2: Yeah, I'm cherryfucking it.
Dude 1: Damn, could you cherryfuck my hit?
Dude 2: Yeah, I'm cherryfucking it.
Dude 1: Damn, could you cherryfuck my hit?
by robynznest October 4, 2012
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