"take one's pick" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-take one's pick.ogg [Australia] Forms: takes one's pick [present, singular, third-person], taking one's pick [participle, present], took one's pick [past], taken one's pick [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> one's pick}} take one's pick (third-person singular simple present takes one's pick, present participle taking one's pick, simple past took one's pick, past participle taken one's pick)
  1. (idiomatic) To choose; to select. Tags: idiomatic Translations (choose): valita (Finnish), faire son choix (French), aussuchen [reflexive] (German), wybierać [imperfective] (Polish), wybrać [perfective] (Polish), do wyboru, do koloru (an interjection) (Polish), ¡escoja lo que quiera! [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-take_one's_pick-en-verb-kF1hKdCZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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