Betekenis van pick sb up In het Nederlands

• 0 (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.

• 1 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.