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[pick_up]

Meet someone for sexual purposes; "he always tries to pick up girls in bars"

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gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"

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get better; "Her performance in school picked up"

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lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile"

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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"

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eat by pecking at, like a bird

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take up by hand; "He picked up the book and started to read"

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take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

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fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"

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give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"

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take and lift upward

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recieve (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"

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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"

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buy casually or spontaneously; "I picked up some food for a snack"

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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"

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get in addition, as an increase; "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"

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meet someone for sexual purposes; "he always tries to pick up girls in bars"


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Usage Examples

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

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Other Usage Examples

I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

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