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pick-me-up

pick-me-up noun: a drink, often an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer.

Noun

pick-me-up (plural pick-me-ups)

  1. (informal) A drink, often an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer.
    • Strong tea is just the pick-me-up that I need right now.
    • He brought a hip flask along, just in case he needs a little pick-me-up later.
  2. Something that improves one's mood.
    • A trip into town for lunch with my friend was a nice pick-me-up today.
    • A month or so of winter sport seemed a desirable pick-me-up after the strenuous work and crowning discomfiture of the election.1919, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Sheep”, in R[othay] R[eynolds], editor, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers. […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […], →OCLC

pick-me-up meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

pick-me-up in Tamil

மது, காபி முதலிய சக்தியளிக்கும் பானம், டானிக்

pick-me-up in Malayalam

restorative, tonic, energizer
ബലവർദ്ധകമായഔഷധം, ബലവർദ്ധകം, ഉത്തേജകം, ദീപനം, ശരീരപുഷ്ടിയുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന മരുന്ന്, ആരോഗ്യം വീണ്ടെടുത്തു നൽകുന്നഔഷധം
fillip, boost, boost to the spirits
ഉത്തേജനം, ഉദ്ദീപനം, പ്രചോദനം, ചോദകവസ്തു, ചോദനം, ഉത്തേജകം

Examples of pick-me-up in a sentence

  • Adonis calls for a ‘pick-me-up’ before he has strength enough to answer a billet-doux from Venus.1873, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VI, in Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William...
  • This is one of the very best pick-me-ups known to the faculty.1897, Edward Spencer, Cakes & Ale:
  • "Had a couple of pick-me-ups and a fat breakfast.a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:
  • What I needed was a pick-me-up, a bracer.1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC:

Synonyms of pick-me-up

Forms of pick-me-up

pluralpick-me-ups

Questions about pick-me-up

What does pick-me-up mean?
Pick-me-up means a drink, often an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer.
What is pick-me-up in Tamil?
Pick-me-up in Tamil is மது, காபி முதலிய சக்தியளிக்கும் பானம், டானிக். See Pick-me-up meaning in Tamil.
How do you use pick-me-up in a sentence?
Adonis calls for a ‘pick-me-up’ before he has strength enough to answer a billet-doux from Venus.
What part of speech is pick-me-up?
Pick-me-up is a noun.
What is the plural of pick-me-up?
The plural of pick-me-up is pick-me-ups.

Words near pick-me-up in the dictionary

  1. pick-me
  2. pick-me boy
  3. pick-me boys
  4. pick-me girl
  5. pick-me girls
  6. pick-me-up
  7. pick-me-ups
  8. pick-mes
  9. pick-off
  10. pick-pocket
  11. pick-pocketed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pick-me-up (page history and authors); pick-me-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pick-me-up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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