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cotton-pickingadjective [attributive] North American informalUsed for emphasis: just a cotton-picking minute!...- I said, ‘Wait a cotton-picking minute - I've always known him, knew he was a good operator and all that, but don't talk to me about taking over this thing now.‘
- But hang on just one cotton-picking minute!
- Well, one mighty big business that has been especially loud about telling government to keep its cotton-picking hands out of their business is the meat industry.
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