Pick up
Pick up verb - To take or keep under one's control by authority of law.
Usage example: police picked up the fugitive when she went out to buy food
Run in
Run in verb - To take or keep under one's control by authority of law.
Usage example: if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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If you don't pick up a $10 Item of the Month, you should feel insanely proud if you manage to complete a run in under 10 days.
Source: Allegedly Free Game - First you have to be on a second run for either of them, and while one is super easy to pick up (there's a new option that appears on a 2nd run in a key scene related to that character; picking it makes the character join later), the other is this trope to a T.
Source: Guide Dang It / Strategy -
No joke, this troper killed a quarter of Fortezza guards using this method, in the same dark corner: shoot in the air to alert guards, run in the corner, throw your knife on one of them, wait they go back to their duty, pick up your knife, do it again.
Source: Video Game / Desperados
Cite this Source
Run in and Pick up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pick_up/run_in
Pick up & Run in. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/pick_up/run_in>.
Run in or Pick up. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/pick_up/run_in.
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