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pick up
verb- to meet someone and form a casual liaison in which at least one of the pair has sexual ambitions involving the other UK, 1698
- Does [DT] Birch really think Monica [Lewinsky] would have given Bill Clinton a second glance if he were the average 50-year-old guy trying to pick her up in a bar? — Psychology Today, September 1999
- to pay a bill, especially when the accounting is for more than one person; to meet the expense of financing or sponsoring something US, 1945
- This will leave the taxpayer to pick up the bill for dealing with 50 years of accumulated waste[.] — The Guardian, 27 June 2002
- You pick the restaurant and I’ll pick up the check. — Peter Conti and David Finkel, Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures, p. 125, 2003
- [T]he government needed to stop private companies from walking away from unprofitable contracts and forcing the public to pick up the tab. — The Guardian, 3 June 2003
- to smoke marijuana US
- It was passed around by Pasternak, who gave instructions on how to “pick up” to Kathryn, and all sipped deeply. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 86, 1952
▶ pick up on
to comprehend something US- — Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians, p. 317, 1959
- — Burton H. Wolfe, The Hippies, p. 205, 1968: “A hip glossary for the uptight people”
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