| pick | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: choice, option, selection |
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| (noun) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body | - |
| (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe |
| (noun) a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material | - |
| (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, weft, woof |
| (noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument | Synonyms: plectron, plectrum |
| (noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: choice, selection |
| (noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: cream |
| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: picking |
| (verb) remove in small bits | - |
| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) select carefully from a group | - |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: blame, find fault |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, piece |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, peck |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pluck |
| (verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
| (verb) provoke | - |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: foot |
| (verb) pilfer or rob | - |
| pickaback | (adverb) on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip | Synonyms: pig-a-back, piggyback |
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| (adverb) on a railroad flatcar | Synonyms: pig-a-back, piggyback |
| pickaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny |
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| pickax | (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pick, pickaxe |
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| pickaxe | (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pick, pickax |
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| pickelhaube | (noun) a spiked helmet worn by German soldiers | - |
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| picker | (noun) someone who gathers crops or fruits etc. | - |
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| (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: chooser, selector |
| pickerel | (noun) any of several North American species of small pike | - |
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| (noun) flesh of young or small pike | - |
| pickerelweed | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, wampee |
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| picket | (noun) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake | Synonyms: piquet |
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| (noun) a wooden strip forming part of a fence | Synonyms: pale |
| (noun) a vehicle performing sentinel duty | - |
| (noun) a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack | - |
| (noun) a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| picking | (noun) the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.) | - |
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| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: pick |
| pickings | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: taking |
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| pickle | (noun) vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle |
| (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
| pickled | (adjective) (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid | - |
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| picklepuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, pouter, sourpuss |
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| picknicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picnicker |
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| pickpocket | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: cutpurse, dip |
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| pickup | (noun) the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking aboard passengers or freight | - |
| (noun) a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard | Synonyms: pickup truck |
| (noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge | Synonyms: pickup arm, tone arm |
| (noun) anything with restorative powers | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: getaway |
| (noun) a warrant to take someone into custody | - |
| (noun) a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships | - |
| picky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, particular |
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