simple past tense and past participle of pick up the mantle

(slang, derogatory, rare) A man who claims or acts as if he is unlike most other men, in order to gain attention from women.

(idiomatic) To seek information from someone knowledgeable; to ask questions of someone.

(intransitive, idiomatic, chiefly US) To accept a bill and pay it, especially at a bar or restaurant.

To pick up the receiver of a telephone, generally with the intention of making a phone call. / To answer an incoming telephone call.

(idiomatic, usually followed by with) To have a complaint or grievance (with somebody); to have a contentious issue to discuss.

(informal) A drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer.

A selection of different articles (such as sweets arranged in trays) that can be chosen in any combination and paid for by weight or number.

A place, such as a nightclub, where people congregate in order to find a romantic or sexual partner.

(idiomatic) To add stitches to the knitting needle that were previously bound off, or that belong to the selvage, during the process of knitting or entrelac.