Clues for the word "PICK"
We've had 73 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 117 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on January 20, 2026.
Definition of pick
- v. - To throw; to pitch.
- v. - To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
- v. - To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
- v. - To open (a lock) as by a wire.
- v. - To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
- v. - To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.
- v. - To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.
- v. - To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.
- v. - To trim.
- v. i. - To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- v. i. - To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- v. i. - To steal; to pilfer.
- n. - A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
- n. - A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- n. - A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
- n. - Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
- n. - That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
- n. - A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.
- n. - That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- n. - The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
Referring Clues
- Basketball maneuver
- Eat like a bird
- Prospector's tool
- Ice breaker
- Dentist's tool
- Forty-niner's equipment
- Go with
- Miner's tool
- Choose
- Guitarist's tool
- Tease, with "on"
- "___ a card, any card..."
- Basketball ploy
- Best one
- Fantasy draft choice
- Icebreaker
- Choice
- Decide upon wide-toothed comb (4)
- Roll's partner
- Draft ___
- Forty-niner's tool
- Stop on "moe"
- Provoke, as a fight
- Sourdough's ground breaker
- Horse on a ticket
- Item for a guitarist or a prospector
- Select
- Elect
- Draft ___
- ___ of the litter
- Guitar accessory
- Selection
- Guitarist's need
- Guitar-playing tool
- "___ a card, any card ..."
- What may help break the ice
- Draft item often traded
- Harvest vegetables
- See 53-Across
- Pluck (a flower)
- Miner's or guitarist's need
- Harvest
- Plectrum
- Choose - best
- Tool - select
- Choose to sleep around, caught making penetration
- See 21
- Select - ground breaker
- Best of tools?
- Choose - ground-breaking instrument
- Hero of a Dickens novel
- Choose a burner of papers?
- Select - ground-breaking tool
- Cream
- Select a tool
- First-choice tool
- Choose to break new ground
- Choose a tool
- Cream plectrum?
- Best option
- Choose the best tool for breaking rocks
- Opt for
- Word after ice or draft
- 25-Down-styling tool
- The epicure's choice, does one hear?
- Banjo accessory
- Choice of an epic kind
- Guitar strummer
- ___ and choose
- Guitarist's accessory
- Best of tools?
- Choose something sharp
- With 39-Across, "Move faster!," or what one can do with the end of the answer to each starred clue
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - January 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 24, 2025
- New York Times - April 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 14, 2025
- LA Times - January 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 09, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 11, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 24, 2024
- USA Today - April 01, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 23, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 20, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 31, 2023
- USA Today - July 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 15, 2023
- New York Times - December 14, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - November 17, 2022
- USA Today - November 12, 2022
- LA Times - October 19, 2022
- Your Life Choices - October 02, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - June 28, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - January 20, 2018
- Guardian Quick - January 18, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - November 24, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2017
- And in 87 more crossword puzzles...