"pick-me-up" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: pick-me-ups [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pick-me-up (plural pick-me-ups)
  1. (informal) A drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Drinking Translations (drink): средство против махмурлук (sredstvo protiv mahmurluk) (Bulgarian), Mageneinrenker [masculine, uncommon] (German), szíverősítő (Hungarian), тонизи́рующее сре́дство (tonizírujuščeje srédstvo) [neuter] (Russian), återställare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pick-me-up-en-noun-gj5O7BaO Disambiguation of Drinking: 56 44 Disambiguation of 'drink': 100 0
  2. Something that improves one's mood.
    Sense id: en-pick-me-up-en-noun-tdvvmfot Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 28 72 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: hair of the dog

Inflected forms

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