picked up

Synonyms

nab gat received heard acquired gathered got gather up arrested caught evolved candid camera collared snagged copped

Antonyms

lost abandoned confused deserted misunderstood blackened
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Examples

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood. Norman Mailer

Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada. Jane Jacobs

Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God - or the universal woman-and-man - or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way. Sylvia Plath

The blind man has picked up a coin. Portuguese Proverb

An udara fruit that falls by the roadside must want to be picked up and eaten. Ibo Proverb

Loose words are picked up like gold coin. Russian Proverb

Words in the phrase

picked up

Close letter words and terms

picked dogfish picked man picked out picked up on picked-strings pickedness