pick sb up

(POLICE) UK informal — phrasal verb with pick

/pɪk/ verb

Definition

› (of the police) to stop someone and take them to a police station in order to question them or arrest them: He was picked up by the police for drug dealing. The police picked her up just outside Canterbury.Arresting and charging

(Definition of pick sb up (POLICE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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