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pick someone/something off 1. to kill or shoot one person or animal at a time. Snipers picked the soldiers off one by one. The birds in the nest were picked off by hawks. 2. to select and attack or defeat a particular person or group. During the race I just picked off the runners ahead of me one at a time. We try to identify these criminal groups and pick their leaders off before they can cause too much trouble. The Republicans picked off Democrats in Oklahoma, Alabama, and Mississippi in the last election. See also: pick How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"If I durst," said the captain, "I'd stop and pick off another man. For example, a proportion of them, always the best marksmen, direct their fire entirely upon the wireless finding and sighting apparatus of the big guns of an attacking naval force; another detail attends to the smaller guns in the same way; others pick off the gunners; still others the officers; while certain other quotas concentrate their attention upon the other members of the crew, upon the upper works, and upon the steering gear and propellers. They attempt, also, together with the Chimango, to pick off the scabs from the sore backs of horses and mules. |
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