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Pick-me-up   /pɪk-mi-əp/   Listen
Pick-me-up

noun
1.
Anything with restorative powers.  Synonym: pickup.
2.
A tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor).  Synonym: bracer.






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"Pick-me-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Year, a useful and trustworthy historical record, was sent to me, and not "de-KLEIN'd with thanks." I have just heard that there is a new pick-me-up called "Zingit." What it is I don't know, and I haven't as yet come across the inevitable big advertisement; but what I have ascertained is, that Mr. EDWARD SOLOMON, who is now wearing the diamond scarf-pin presented to him by the Guards whom he ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 • Various



Words linked to "Pick-me-up" :   tonic, pickup, corrective, restorative, bracer



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