pick-me-up

English

Noun

pick-me-up (plural pick-me-ups)

(informal) A drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer.
- 1977, Stephen King, The Shining, chapter 5
  God, he needed a drink. Just a little pick-me-up to put things in their true perspective—

Translations

drink

German: Mageneinrenker m
Hungarian: szíverősítő

Russian: тонизирующее (tonizirujuščeje) сре́дство (srédstvo) (tonizírujuščeje srédstvo) n

See also

hair of the dog

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