What is "picking up"

Usage examples of "picking up".

He had been picking up a hot little brownskin waitress at the Fischer Cafeteria next to the 125th Street railroad station every Saturday night since the new year began.

This works (getting drunk, making lots of money, fixing a great meal, picking up a hot date, etc.

In fact, only those already immersed in Jordan's universe will be able to follow the multitude of characters moving in and out of the story line, each one picking up a thread, advancing it, and dropping it, perhaps to return to it later in this book, or, perhaps, in the next.

For reasons unknown to anyone the cryonic equipment had begun picking up the powerful nearby FM signal.

He is moving about the country, picking up all the recruits he can.

We'd been picking up the sequences for years since then and we were never able to correlate them with any natural phenomena in the vicinity.

Polly is picking up chestnuts on the sward, regardless of the high wind which rattles them about her head and upon the glass roof of her winter-garden.

It was barely possible that the channels were fouled, that they heard him but that he wasn't picking up their answer.

Periodically, despite the fact that, except under the most favorable and unusual subspace circumstances, only Starfleet Headquarters was capable of picking up a starship signal at these distances, she scanned through every starbase and starship channel.