Word Study
pick-me-up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pick-me-up has 2 senses
- pick-me-up(n = noun.artifact) pickup - anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her" is a kind of corrective, restorative
- pick-me-up(n = noun.artifact) bracer - a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor); Array is a kind of restorative, tonic
CIDE DICTIONARY
pick-me-up, n.
A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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