pick sb up
— phrasal verb with pick uk/pɪk/us/pɪk/verb
(POLICE)
UK informal (of the police) to stop someone and take them to a police station in order to be questioned or arrested:
He was picked up by the police for drug dealing.
The police picked her up just outside Canterbury.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Arresting & charging
- apprehend
- apprehension
- arrest
- assist
- attachment
- charge
- charge sheet
- handcuffs
- hold
- house arrest
- knock
- lag
- Miranda
- pull sb in
- run
- run sb in
- take sb in
- the knock at/on the door idiom
- tighten
- tighten the net idiom
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(MEET)
informal to start a sexual or romantic relationship with someone you do not know, by talking to that person and giving them a lot of attention:
He said he'd picked the woman up in a bar.