Pick

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Pick may refer to:

Tools and weapons

• Afro pick, a type of comb typically for kinky, coiled hair
• Horseman's pick, a weapon used by medieval cavalry units in Europe
• Pickaxe, a hand tool
• Icepick
• Lockpick (disambiguation), a tool used for lock picking

Music

• Plectrum, a device for picking or strumming a stringed instrument
• Guitar pick, a plectrum for a guitar
• The Picks, an American vocal trio that backed Buddy Holly and The Crickets

Places

• Pick City, North Dakota, United States, a town
• Pick Mere, a lake in Cheshire, England
• Pick Lake (Cochrane District, Ontario), Canada
• Pick Lake (Thunder Bay District, Ontario), Canada

People

• Pick (surname), list of people with this name
• Pick Withers (born 1948), original drummer for the rock band Dire Straits
• Pick Temple (c. 1911-1991), American folk singer and children's television star

Gaming and sports

• Pick, slang term for an interception
• Screen (sports), also called a pick, a blocking move used against a defender
  • Pick and roll, an offensive play in basketball
• Odds and evens, a hand game

Other uses

• Pick (hieroglyph), showing the pick tool, meaning "break through"
• Pick TV, a British television channel
• "The Pick", an episode of the television show Seinfeld
• Pick operating system, a computer operating system built around a multidimensional, variable data length database, often called "the Pick system" or simply "Pick"
• PICK, recording mark for the Pickens Railway in South Carolina

See also

• Pick's Disease, a dementing illness
• Sertoli cell nodule, also known as Pick's adenoma, a medical disorder
• Pick's theorem in geometry
• Pick matrix, a specific type of mathematical matrix
• Pick stitch, in sewing
• Pickle (disambiguation)
• Picker (disambiguation)
• Picket (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Pick"
• All pages with titles containing "Pick"
• Choose (disambiguation)
• Take (disambiguation)

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