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stoop labor

–noun
the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, esp. as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers.

Origin:
1945–50
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stoop labor

Back-bending manual work, especially farm work. For example, They had us picking peas all day, and that's too much stoop labor. [First half of 1900s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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