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Pick At
- verb - eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
- express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student''s efforts"
- express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts"
- pluck or pull at with the fingers; "She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse"
Pick Up
- verb - buy casually or spontaneously; "I picked up some food for a snack"
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"
- gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"
- gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week"
- get better; "Her performance in school picked up"
- get in addition, as an increase; "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"
- improve significantly; go from bad to good; "Her performance in school picked up"
- lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the c
Pick-Up
- - Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
Pickaxe
- noun - a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks"
Pickeer
- - To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.
Pickers
- noun - a person who chooses or selects out
- someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
Pickets
- noun - a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
- serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs"
Pickett
- noun - American Confederate general known for leading a disastrous charge at Gettysburg (1825-1875)
Pickier
- adjective - exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"