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Definition of picking up steam

pick up steam

verb

  • to grow in strength, speed, severity, etc.
                                                                                                                                                                                            

    Citation from "Epic Win", Slate, Christopher Beam, Oct 15 2008 censored in hope of resolving 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: to ask a serious of questions of a person who knows about a particular topic, in order to learn more about it.
Definitions include: person who doesn't catch on to jokes, does not pick up.
Definitions include: a man who successfully meets women, collects their telephone numbers and then has sexual intercourse with his desired female.

Other terms relating to 'steam':

Definitions include: vaginal moisture.
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: to 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.

Other terms relating to 'up':

Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
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: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
Definitions include: to make something like ass.
Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
Definitions include: stupid.
Definitions include: strange / stupid.

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