Clues for the word "PICK"
We've had 73 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 114 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on February 14, 2025.
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
- 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
- Mirror Classic - August 30, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - July 22, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - July 05, 2017
- And in 84 more crossword puzzles...