Pick Up (album)
WordNet
verb
(1) Gain or regain energy
"I picked up after a nap"
(2) Get better
"Her performance in school picked up"
(3) Lift out or reflect from a background
"The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"
"His eyes picked up his smile"
(4) Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
"I learned that she has two grown-up children"
"I see that you have been promoted"
(5) Eat by pecking at, like a bird
(6) Take up by hand
"He picked up the book and started to read"
(7) Take into custody
"The police nabbed the suspected criminals"
(8) Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
"Music can uplift your spirits"
(9) Give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
"We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"
(10) Take and lift upward
(11) Register (perceptual input)
"Pick up a signal"
(12) Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
"I caught the aroma of coffee"
"He caught the allusion in her glance"
"Ears open to catch every sound"
"The dog picked up the scent"
"Catch a glimpse"
(13) Buy casually or spontaneously
"I picked up some food for a snack"
(14) Gather or collect
"You can get the results on Monday"
"She picked up the children at the day care center"
"They pick up our trash twice a week"
(15) Get in addition, as an increase
"The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"
(16) Meet someone for sexual purposes
"He always tries to pick up girls in bars"
WiktionaryText
Verb
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- When you pick up the bag, make sure to support the bottom.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- Can you pick up a pint of milk on your way home?
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- Aren't you going to pick up after yourself?
- 1971-1977, "Or", The Electric Company
- Bayn Johnson: Pick up you room
- June Angela: or you can't have a snack.
- To collect a passenger.
- I'll pick you up outside the library.
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- The cops have picked up the man they were looking for.
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- Prices seem to be picking up again.
- To restart or resume.
- Let's pick up where we left off yesterday.
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand.
- It looks complicated, but you'll soon pick it up.
- (of a radio signal, etc.) To receive.
- With the new antenna, I can pick up stations all the way from Omaha.
- To notice, detect or discern, often used with "on".
- Did you pick up his nervousness?
- Did you pick up on his nervousness?
- To point out (a person's behaviour, habits or actions) in a critical manner.
- She's always picking me up on my grammar
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation, sometimes used with "on".
- He was in the fabric store not to buy fabric but to pick up women.
- She could tell he intended to pick up on her.
- To answer a telephone. See pick up the phone.
- I'm calling him, but he just isn't picking up!
- To pay for.
- The company will pick up lunch with customers for sales calls.
Noun
- An impromptu athletic game.
- Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pick up.
- At lunch we had a game of pick up hockey.
- The act of picking up something or someone.
- An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter. See also pick-up line, pick-up joint, pickup artist.
- Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pick up, I'm not interested.
- A pickup truck.
Related terms
- pick up truck
- pick up artist
- pick up line
- pick up joint
- pick up stitches