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vb. (en-third-person singularpick up)
Usage examples of "picks up".
He picks up his fork and begins to eat again, Ty's Brewers cap sitting on his head like Spanky's beanie in an old Our Gang one-reeler.
Then he picks up the redberry pitcher, offers it to Lorcas, who nods.
As the image fades, he picks up the crude map he has drawn out, of the road and the best way to reach Flutak's villa.
So he picks up the boy and carries him through the compound, down semicollapsed hallways and over settling rubble-heaps and between dead Nipponese boys to that big staircase, and shows him the giant slabs of granite, tells how they were laid, one on top of the next, year by year, as the galleons full of silver came from Acapulco.
The engines whine louder and the thwacking of the chopper blades picks up.
At Bespin, Luke picks up another candidate named Streen, an old man who wants to learn how to keep from hearing other people's emotions and thoughts.