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Definition of Pick-me-up

1. Noun. Anything with restorative powers. "She needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"

2. Noun. A tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor).

Definition of Pick-me-up

1. Noun. a drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pick-me-up

pichurim pichurim bean pichurims pichvai pichvais pici picibanil piciform piciform bird piciformes

picine pick pick's disease pick-axe pick-axes pick-me-up (current term) pick-me-ups pick-pocket pick-pocketed pick-pocketing

pick-pockets pick-up pick-up joint pick-up lines pick-ups pick 'n' mix pick and place pick and roll pick apart

Literary usage of Pick-me-up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica by Edward Lear (1870)
"... I order Peter to pick me up later at a spot where, among vast boulders of granite, the village composes prettily with the near rocks and far mountain, ..."

2. The Necessity for Criminal Appeal: As Illustrated by the Maybrick Case and by Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick, Joseph Hiam Levy (1899)
"The portrait in the Echo was a good one, and you recognised him as being a customer at your shop ?— Yes. Was this pick-me-up business near the Exchange? ..."

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