pick up (Verb) — Take and lift upward.
pick up (Verb) — Take up by hand. ex. "He picked up the book and started to read"
pick up (Verb) — Give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift. ex. "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"
pick up (Verb) — Go to meet, esp. to then take somewhere in a vehicle. ex. "She picked up the children at the day care centre" ex. "They pick up our trash twice a week"
pick up (Verb) — Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally. ex. "I picked up that she has two grown-up children"
pick up (Verb) — Get in addition, as an increase. ex. "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"
pick up (Verb) — Take into custody. ex. "the police picked up the suspected criminals"
pick up (Verb) — Buy casually or spontaneously. ex. "I picked up some food for a snack"
pick up (Verb) — Register (perceptual input). ex. "pick up a signal"
pick up (Verb) — Lift out or reflect from a background. ex. "The scarf picks up the colour of the skirt" ex. "His eyes picked up his smile"
pick up (Verb) — Meet someone for sexual purposes. ex. "he always tries to pick up girls in bars"
pick up (Verb) — Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism. ex. "Music can pick up your spirits"
pick up (Verb) — Improve significantly; go from bad to good. ex. "Her performance in school picked up"
pick up (Verb) — Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily. ex. "The dog picked up the scent"
pick up (Verb) — Eat by pecking at, like a bird.
pick up (Verb) — Gain or regain energy. ex. "I picked up after a nap"
pick up (Noun) — A light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard.
pick up (Noun) — A warrant to take someone into custody. ex. "put out a pickup on that man"
pick up (Noun) — Anything with restorative powers. ex. "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"
pick up (Noun) — A casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships.
pick up (Noun) — The attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration. ex. "his car has a lot of pickup"
pick up (Noun) — Mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge.
pick up (Noun) — An electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable.
pick up (Noun) — The act or process of picking up or collecting from various places. ex. "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"
pick up (Noun) — The act of taking aboard passengers or freight.