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Definition of pick up steam
pick up steam
verb
- to grow in strength, speed, severity, etc.
Citation from "Epic Win", Slate, Christopher Beam, Oct 15 2008 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Apr 14 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Apr 14 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'pick': | |
| Definitions include: a highly sought after female. | |
| Definitions include: to have a grudge to discuss. | |
| Definitions include: a scrap yard where you pick the best parts you can't find anywhere else off the scraps car of your choice, pull (disconnect) the used parts yourself. | |
| Definitions include: after using meth standing in front of a mirror and digging on ones face. falsely thinking ones face has a blemish or pimple and due to the drugs the person continue to dig out a blemish that does NOT exist. | |
| Definitions include: a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: person who doesn't catch on to jokes, does not pick up. | |
Other terms relating to 'steam': | |
| Definitions include: This definition is questionable and is pending deletion. | |
| Definitions include: to get rid of aggression or anger. | |
| Definitions include: to do something to get rid of negative emotions. | |
| Definitions include: the act of defecating on a person's chest. | |
| Definitions include: to proceed in full. | |
| Definitions include: to become too tired to finish. | |
| Definitions include: to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: Defecate. | |
| Definitions include: feces | |
| Definitions include: to be angry. | |
| Definitions include: angry. | |
| Definitions include: angry. | |
| Definitions include: feces; "turd". | |
| Definitions include: very drunk. | |
| Definitions include: a vulgar, made up sexual move. | |
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Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
| Definitions include: a situation that could end in multiple outcomes, each of which is equally likely. | |
| Definitions include: to move away from. | |
| Definitions include: to call someone to halt, particularly when the intention is to rob. | |
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