To Pick Up

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To lift an object with the hands

Examples

  • Keep your back straight when you lift the TV up.
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Come and get someone in a car

Examples

  • What time are you going to pick me up.
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Learn something without effort

Examples

  • It's possible to pick up enough English in two weeks to get by on your trip to Los Angeles.
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Grow, increase (inf.)

Examples

  • Business is really picking up this quarter.
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Try to initiate a relationship with someone (often in a bar)

Examples

  • Some weird guy tried to pick Patricia up at the bar.
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