"pick it up" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Its exact orignal is unknown, but possibly comes from the practice of scatting and toasting in Jamaican ska music. The first recorded use of the term comes from The Employees's 1980 song \"Pick it Up\". The related Jamaican phrase \"You pick him up, you lick him dung\" is recorded as early as 1966 in Prince Buster's song \"Hard Man Fe Dead\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "picks it up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picking it up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked it up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked it up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pick it up (third-person singular simple present picks it up, present participle picking it up, simple past and past participle picked it up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hurry up, pick up the pace."
      ],
      "id": "en-pick_it_up-en-verb-Et-iIbRQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "hurry up",
          "hurry up"
        ],
        [
          "pick up the pace",
          "pick up the pace"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Prince Buster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick it up"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Its exact orignal is unknown, but possibly comes from the practice of scatting and toasting in Jamaican ska music. The first recorded use of the term comes from The Employees's 1980 song \"Pick it Up\". The related Jamaican phrase \"You pick him up, you lick him dung\" is recorded as early as 1966 in Prince Buster's song \"Hard Man Fe Dead\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "picks it up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picking it up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked it up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked it up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pick it up (third-person singular simple present picks it up, present participle picking it up, simple past and past participle picked it up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
        "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hurry up, pick up the pace."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hurry up",
          "hurry up"
        ],
        [
          "pick up the pace",
          "pick up the pace"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Prince Buster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick it up"
}