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  • pick up your foot
    [Car.; Gul. idem (Gonzales 1924: 13); DJE "cf. Twi ma wo náŋ so, lift your feet, i.e. quicken your steps.,
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  • pick up (2)
    [cf. Picx2 3] to remove meat from bones: 1918 He started pickin' dis chicken up (Parsons 149). (Black)
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  • pick up (1)
    v. phr. 1. [cf. OED pick idem] to gather (fruit, etc.): 1966 He pick up a few [nuts off a
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  • pick up for somebody
    phr. to take somebody's side in an argument. (Andros, Eleu.)
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  • pick somebody's mouth
    [Atlantic; a calque: cf. Twi tie nano (lit. pick mouth) elicit information (K. Aboagye p.c.)] v. phr. to get information
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  • pick peter
    [see PICKCHEELY] n. the grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis: 1960 (Bond 150). 1977 There are many kinds of birds here. .
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  • pick out
    See PICK¹ v.
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  • pickle
    [from prickle by loss of /r/, perhaps influenced by PICK²] n. thorn. (Mayag.)
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  • pickle
    [cf. OED, brine for culinary purposes] n. brine left after salt crystals have been collected from salt ponds; 1909 In
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  • pick in
    See PICK³2.
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