[General] Quicker Picker Upper

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For decades, Bounty paper towels advertised themselves as "the quicker picker upper."
What does the part in bold mean?
 
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As an ad slogan, it doesn't have to comply with punctuation rules. A careful writer would hyphenate the invented compound noun picker-upper.
 
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