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pick up

VERB
  1. eat by pecking at, like a bird
  2. take and lift upward
  3. perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
    ears open to catch every sound
    He caught the allusion in her glance
    Catch a glimpse
    The dog picked up the scent
    I caught the aroma of coffee
  4. take up by hand
    He picked up the book and started to read
  5. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
    I see that you have been promoted
    I learned that she has two grown-up children
  6. give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
    We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway
  7. take into custody
    the police nabbed the suspected criminals
  8. get in addition, as an increase
    The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home
  9. register (perceptual input)
    pick up a signal
  10. gather or collect
    You can get the results on Monday
    They pick up our trash twice a week
    She picked up the children at the day care center
  11. gain or regain energy
    I picked up after a nap
  12. fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
    Music can uplift your spirits
  13. buy casually or spontaneously
    I picked up some food for a snack
  14. improve significantly; go from bad to good
    Her performance in school picked up
  15. meet someone for sexual purposes
    he always tries to pick up girls in bars
  16. lift out or reflect from a background
    His eyes picked up his smile
    The scarf picks up the color of the skirt

How To Use pick up In A Sentence

  • If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
  • Instead, go to the departure area of the airport and pick up a taxi that has just dropped somebody. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the same token, if you pick up a strange rash, you will want to see a doctor in case it really is flesh-eating bacteria.
  • They didn't pick up any ground against Boston, who spent its day walloping Toronto to remain two games in front of New York. Yanks Smack Cleveland Again
  • I strongly recommend you pick up the book next time you spy a copy on someone's bookshelf.
  • All phospholipids are hygroscopic and pick up water if they are not handled properly under inert gas atmosphere.
  • In the wild there is no piste patrol to pick up the pieces, and the mountains bristle with rocks, cliffs and cornices.
  • You can pick up a background porky flavour, but they're way too sweet. Times, Sunday Times
  • She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit. The Ambassadors
  • I wake up in the morning and before I even get out of bed, I pick up my celly, go to ESPN.com and check my Padres score. Falling Off the Bandwagon
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