pick-me-up

Definitions

1. 1

   A drink, often an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure

   A drink, often an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer.

   • Strong tea is just the pick-me-up that I need right now.
   • He brought a hip flask along, just in case he needs a little pick-me-up later.
   • Adonis calls for a ‘pick-me-up’ before he has strength enough to answer a billet-doux from Venus. Adonis has not the strength to get nobly drunk, but his delicate constitution requires stimulants, and he is always tippling.
2. 2

   Something that improves one's mood.

   • A trip into town for lunch with my friend was a nice pick-me-up today.
   • A month or so of winter sport seemed a desirable pick-me-up after the strenuous work and crowning discomfiture of the election.

The neighborhood

• synonympicker-upper
• neighborcocktail
• neighborhair of the dog
• neighborpep up