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picksnounpl. of pick a person or thing that is chosenthat team is my pick to win the Super Bowl bets, choices, chosen, selections favorites, likes, likings, preferenceselectives, optionsappointments, designations, nominationsappointees, candidates, nominees, selecteespreselections rejectees individuals carefully selected as being the best of a classthe pick of the contestants will go on to the next competition A-lists, aristocracies, best, choices, corps d'elite, creams, crème de la crème, elect, elites, fat, flowers, illuminati, pinks, prides, priesthoods, primes, royalties, upper crusts establishments, gentries, nobilities, qualities, societies, top drawers, tops, upper classescaviars(also caviares)who's whos Halls of Fame commoners, herds, hoi polloi, masses, millions, mobs, multitudes, rank and files, unwasheds the power, right, or opportunity to chooseyou have first pick of your office mates for the softball team alternatives, choices, discretions, druthers(dialect), elections, liberties, options, preferences, selections, volitions, ways determinations, free wills, willssays, voices, votesinclinations, likings, partialities, penchants, predilections, proclivities, propensities, tendenciesdiscernments, judgments(or judgements), perspicacities coercions, duresses, forcesduties, obligationsHobson's choices 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 bangs, bashes, bats, beats, belts, biffs, blows, bops, boxes, buffets, busts, chops, claps, clips, clouts, cracks, cuffs, dabs, douses(British), fillips, hacks, haymakers, hits, hooks, knocks, larrups(dialect), lashes, licks, pelts, plumps, pokes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slugs, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, stingers, stripes, strokes, swats, swipes, switches, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, welts, whacks, whams, whops(also whaps) counterblows(or counter-blows), counterpunches, counters, counterstrokes(or counter-strokes)body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, right-handers, rights, roundhouses, shivers, sidewinders, sucker punches, swings, uppercutscrunchers, kayos, knockdowns, knockouts, KOsbastinadoes(or bastinades), batterings, beatings, drubbings, lickings, pastings, thrashingswallopings, whippings, whips picksverbpresent tense third-person singular of pickto catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human usepick peas and beans from the garden for dinner gathers, harvests, reaps clams, fishes, seals, shrimps, whalesaccumulates, forages, garnersgleanscuts, hays, mowsbags, captures, hunts, nets, snares, trapscrops, grows, raises plants, seeds, sows to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilitiesI pick you as my partner cherry-picks, chooses, culls, elects, handpicks, names, opts (for), prefers, selects, singles (out), tags, takes preselectsappoints, designates, fixes, marks, nominates, sets, tabs, tapsaccepts, adopts, embraces, espousessettles (on or upon) declines, refuses, rejects, turns down disapproves, negatives, repudiates, spurnsdiscards, jettisons, throws away, throws out to bring (something volatile or intense) into beinghe seems to be trying to pick a fight abets, brews, ferments, foments, incites, instigates, provokes, raises, stirs (up), whips (up) advances, cultivates, encourages, forwards, fosters, furthers, nourishes, nurtures, promotes, sows, stimulatesdetonates, sets, sets off, triggersexcites, galvanizes, inflames(also enflames), inspires, motivates, rousesactivates, energizes, enlivens, fires, invigorates, jazzes (up), livens (up), peps (up), quickens, stimulates, vitalizes sets in motion bridles, checks, constrains, curbs, discourages, holds, inhibits, regulates, reins (in), restrains, tamesallays, calms, quiets, settles, soothes, stills, subdues, tranquilizes(also tranquillizes) 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 nibbles, pecks grazes, noshes, snackstastes gorges, gormandizes, overeats, pigs out, swills to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed objectcontinued to pick the block of ice until she was able to extract the shrimp gores, harpoons, impales, jabs, lances, pecks, pierces, pinks, punctures, runs through, skewers, spears, spikes, spits, stabs, sticks, transfixes, transpierces spindlesperforates, riddlesbayonets, dirks, gimlets, pikes, poniards, prongs, quillspinpricks, pokes, pricks, punches, thrustscuts, knifes, slices |