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ˈpick-me-up colloq.
[A phrase used as n.: see pick v.1 21, and pick-.]
1. a. orig. A stimulating drink serving to restore vigour after exhaustion; extended to beverages, medicinal preparations, etc., supposed to have restorative and tonic qualities.
1867Latham Black & White 80 Who could induce the American loafer to drink home-brewed ale..instead of pick-me-ups. 1871Standard 13 Feb., A good trade in ‘foaming pick-me-ups’,..was done at the various American bars. 1884Pall Mall G. 4 Apr. 4/1 The land of cocktails and pick-me-ups. 1900Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 5/2 Incautious use of a pick-me-up in which strychnine was an ingredient.
b. transf. and fig. Anything serving to restore strength or vigour, or having a bracing effect.
1876‘Ouida’ Winter City vii. 217 To Society the Père Hilarion was only a sort of mental liqueur, as Jenny Léa was an American ‘pick-me-up’. 1887Poor Nellie (1888) 278 Dr. Doseman's lively wrath proved a pick-me-up to his. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 102 The pick-me-up we saw administered was a small dose of spiegeleisen from a furnace close by. 1891M. O'Rell Frenchm. in Amer. 43 This man is in constant need of moral support and pick-me-up.
2. A woman who readily allows herself to be picked up; a prostitute. Cf. pick-up n. 3.
1922Joyce Ulysses 49 She lives in Leeson park, with a grief and kickshaws, a lady of letters. Talk that to some else, Stevie: a pickmeup. 1941J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 42 Pick me up, loose woman. |