Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus.) a street-cleaner.

1912

Sport (Adelaide) 5 Oct. 15/4: They Say [...] That It is rumoured that Roman-nosed Tom, the cherry picker, is a married man with a large family.

2. a yokel, a peasant [the typical rural occupation].

1929		A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: I nearly go to the mat with one cherry-picker. He cracks som’pin about bums I don’t like.
1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1965		A. Green in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 My personal vocabulary of such catch-names was enriched [...] to include ridge-runner, appleknocker, cherrypicker, and turdkicker.

3. (Aus./N.Z./US) a large, hooked nose, supposedly big enough to hang over a branch as a hook while one picks cherries from the tree.

1939		P.G. Brewster ‘Folk “Sayings” From Indiana’ in AS XIV:4 261: A particularly prominent and hooked nasal organ is ‘a cherry-picker’s nose’, the possessor of which could hook it over a limb and thus support himself while he picked cherries with both hands.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 45: cherrypicker A large nose. ANZ.
2016		N. Cummins Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] VITAL AUSSIE VERNACULAR NOSE: 1. Cherry picker 2. Beak 3. Honker 4. Sniffer.

4. (US) a pointed shoe.

1968

in DARE.