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- n. An aircraft that carries out crop-dusting.
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“Imagine the cropduster truly flying at you in North by Northwest, or just those opening credits of Vertigo.”
“– Asking B. Mac for screenwriting advice is like asking a cropduster pilot to fly a fighter jet.”
“Grant is on his own in "North by Northwest" (1959), dodging a killer cropduster in one of the most celebrated sequences in film history.”
“Finally, after six minutes of this, the cropduster plane begins its attack on Cary Grant, sending him diving, running through the corn field to hide.”
“It's all quite wonderful right up to the moment when the cropduster plane crashes into the tanker.”
“No, I'm referring to arguably the most famous sequence in North by Northwest, Cary Grant's encounter with a cropduster plane out in the middle of nowhere.”
“In a recent interview, Mr. Busey said that while he was a drug addict, he snorted cocaine off his dog, who had rolled around in the white stuff: “I went in like a cropduster with my nose flying first and snorted the cocaine off the dog.””
“He could be defeated only with the use of a cropduster.”
“Fields of coca are sprayed with glyphosate herbicide from cropduster-type aircraft, killing coca plants and any other crops in the area.”
“The terrorist was last seen in Mexico, where, on Nov. 1, 2004, he allegedly hijacked a Piper PA Pawnee cropduster from Ejido Queretaro near Mexicali to transport a nuclear weapon and nuclear equipment into the U.S., according to Paul Williams, a former FBI consultant and author of “The Dunces of Doomsday.””
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