1. pick up - Noun
2. pick up - Verb
3. pick up - Phrase
take and lift upward
take into custody
gather or collect
perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
gain or regain energy
eat by pecking at, like a bird
improve significantly; go from bad to good
lift out or reflect from a background
take up by hand
give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
register (perceptual input)
buy casually or spontaneously
get in addition, as an increase
meet someone for sexual purposes
Source: WordNetpick-up
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain
I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming. Courtney Love
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. Craig Raine
You can't pick up two melons with one hand. Persian Proverb
To pick up in a clumsy way is stealing, to steal in a skillful way is to pick up. Armenian Proverb
Children pick up words, as pigeons peas, and utter them again as God shall please. Portuguese Proverb