trimmigrant
English
Etymology
Blend of trim + immigrant.
Noun
trimmigrant (plural trimmigrants)
- (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, 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, 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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:trimmigrant.
- 2013, Jacob Shockey, "Poisoned marijuana grows are silencing our forests", Applegater (Applegate Valley, Oregon), Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 2013, page 20: