pick up
Meanings
- a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
- a warrant to take someone into custody;
- anything with restorative powers;
- a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
- the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration;
- mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
- an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
- the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places;
- the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
- take and lift upward
- take up by hand;
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift;
- gather or collect;
- "They pick up our trash twice a week"
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally;
- get in addition, as an increase;
- take into custody;
- buy casually or spontaneously;
- register (perceptual input);
- lift out or reflect from a background;
- meet someone for sexual purposes;
- "he always tries to pick up girls in bars"
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism;
- improve significantly; go from bad to good;
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily;
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- gain or regain energy;