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picknoun a person or thing that is chosenthat team is my pick to win the Super Bowl bet, choice, chosen, selection favorite, like, liking, preferenceelective, optionappointment, designation, nominationappointee, candidate, nominee, selecteepreselection rejectee individuals carefully selected as being the best of a classthe pick of the contestants will go on to the next competition A-list, aristocracy, best, choice, corps d'elite, cream, crème de la crème, elect, elite, fat, flower, illuminati, pink, pride, priesthood, prime, royalty, upper crust establishment, gentry, nobility, quality, society, top, top drawer, upper classcaviar(also caviare)who's who cream of the crop, Hall of Fame commoners, herd, hoi polloi, masses, millions, mob, multitude, rank and file, unwashed the power, right, or opportunity to chooseyou have first pick of your office mates for the softball team alternative, choice, discretion, druthers(dialect), election, liberty, option, preference, selection, volition, way determination, free will, willsay, voice, voteinclination, liking, partiality, penchant, predilection, proclivity, propensity, tendencydiscernment, judgment(or judgement), perspicacity coercion, duress, forceduty, obligationHobson's choice a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrumentin the days when corporal punishment was permissible, it was not uncommon for an inattentive student to get a sharp pick in the head with a blackboard pointer bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, biff, blow, bop, box, buffet, bust, chop, clap, clip, clout, crack, cuff, dab, douse(British), fillip, hack, haymaker, hit, hook, knock, larrup(dialect), lash, lick, pelt, plump, poke, pound, punch, rap, slam, slap, slug, smack, smash, sock, spank, stinger, stripe, stroke, swat, swipe, switch, thud, thump, thwack, wallop, welt, whack, wham, whop(also whap) counter, counterblow, counterpunch, counterstrokebody blow, hand, kick, knee, left, one-two, rabbit punch, right, right-hander, roundhouse, shiver, sidewinder, sucker punch, swing, uppercutcruncher, kayo, knockdown, knockout, KObastinado(or bastinade), battering, beating, bludgeoning, clobbering, cudgeling(or cudgelling), drubbing, hammering, lambasting, licking, pasting, pounding, pummeling(also pummelling), thrashingflogging, walloping, whip, whipping pickverbto catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human usepick peas and beans from the garden for dinner gather, harvest, reap clam, fish, seal, shrimp, whaleaccumulate, forage, garnergleancut, hay, mowbag, capture, hunt, net, snare, trapcrop, grow, raise plant, seed, sow to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilitiesI pick you as my partner cherry-pick, choose, cull, elect, handpick, name, opt (for), prefer, select, single (out), tag, take preselectappoint, designate, fix, mark, nominate, set, tab, tapaccept, adopt, embrace, espousesettle (on or upon) decline, refuse, reject, turn down disapprove, negative, repudiate, spurndiscard, jettison, throw away, throw out to bring (something volatile or intense) into beinghe seems to be trying to pick a fight abet, brew, ferment, foment, incite, instigate, provoke, raise, stir (up), whip (up) advance, cultivate, encourage, forward, foster, further, nourish, nurture, promote, sow, stimulatedetonate, set, set off, triggerexcite, galvanize, inflame(also enflame), inspire, motivate, rouseactivate, energize, enliven, fire, invigorate, jazz (up), liven (up), pep (up), quicken, stimulate, vitalize set in motion bridle, check, constrain, curb, discourage, hold, inhibit, regulate, rein (in), restrain, tameallay, calm, quiet, settle, soothe, still, subdue, tranquilize(also tranquillize) to eat reluctantly and in small bitesstill suffering from the shock of his wife's death, he could do no more than pick halfheartedly at his food nibble, peck graze, nosh, snacktaste gorge, gormandize, overeat, pig out, swill to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed objectcontinued to pick the block of ice until she was able to extract the shrimp gore, harpoon, impale, jab, lance, peck, pierce, pink, puncture, run through, skewer, spear, spike, spit, stab, stick, transfix, transpierce spindleperforate, riddlebayonet, dirk, gimlet, pike, poniard, prong, quillpinprick, poke, prick, punch, thrustcut, knife, slice in the 14th century |